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City of Quincy Christmas Festival Committee Inc

The committee manages and promotes the city of quincy christmas festival including the christmas parade, tree lighting ceremony, santa's arrival, as well as other ancillary activities within the city.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$185kFood & Nutrition$50kCommunity Improvement$25kReligion$23kArts & Culture$23kEducation$15kPublic Benefit$10kInternational$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $38,424 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,924 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$80k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUINCY CHORAL SOCIETY$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $10k → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $5k → 11%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$273k · 8 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$273k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+14%

Still filing today

38%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +77%
  • QC
    QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +42%
  • DO
    DAUGHTERS OF MARY OF NAZARETH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $23k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • BU
    BRYANT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • SO
    SUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -94%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Soldiers of America
Human Services
2
Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Meor of Boston Inc
Religion
4
Benevolent Protective Order of 0257

To promote and practice the four cardinal virtues of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism and cultivate good fellowship.

—
5
Sargeants Army
Human Services
6
Massachusetts Bankers Association Scholarship Foundation
Education
7
Disabled American Veterans Department of Massachusetts Inc

To provide services to individuals who were disabled due to or during their military service.

—
8
Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
—
9
Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept Vfw Mass

The purpose of the organization is fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, to…

—
10
Sovereign Military Order of Malta Western Association-Usa

Serving the poor and sick and promoting their god-given dignity.

Human Services
11
Fraternal Order of Police Loudoun-Dulles Lodge 69

Fraternal beneficiary society

—
12
Imperial Order of Constantine the Great and St Helen Inc
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quincy Community Action Programs Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Legion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salvation Army Montachusett A: $50,000 · OtherSalvation Army Montachusett AGERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $45,000 · OtherGERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERQUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $45,000 · OtherQUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INCST JOSEPH'S FOOD PANTRY: $25,000 · OtherST JOSEPH'S FOOD PANTRYST JOHN'S FOOD PANTRY: $25,000 · OtherST JOHN'S FOOD PANTRYQUINCY CHORAL SOCIETY LTD: $15,000 · OtherQUINCY CHORAL SOCIETY LTDAMERICAN LEGION: $10,000 · OtherMARINE CORPS LEAGUE WILLIAM R CADDY DETACHMENT: $10,000 · OtherCyril P Morrisette Post Building Corp: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SOCIAL S…SUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER OF PEACE …My Brothers Keeper Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper …DAUGHTERS OF MARY OF NAZARETH INC: $23,000 · ReligionBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Education
Other$242,500Human Services$60,000Religion$23,000Education$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetQUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF MARY OF NAZARETH INC: $23,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS LEAGUE WILLIAM R CADDY DETACHMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCyril P Morrisette Post Building Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization City of Quincy Christmas Festival Committee Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City of Quincy Christmas Festival Committee Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Quincy Community Action Programs Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Interfaith Social Services Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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