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Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$924k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$313kHuman Services$240kHousing & Shelter$126kCommunity Improvement$108kPublic Benefit$102kPhilanthropy$46kHealth$45kEducation$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $810k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$996k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS$105,000
NEIGHBORWORKS HOUSING SOLUTIONS$102,500
THE SALVATION ARMY$102,500
GERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRY$100,000
WEYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY$100,000
ADAMS PRESIDENTIAL CENTER$100,000
HOLBROOK FOOD PANTRY$100,000
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES$100,000
QUINCY ROTARY FOUNDATION$27,500
THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION$12,500
THE ANGEL FUND FOR ALS RESEARCH$11,000
QUINCY POLICE DARE PROGRAM$11,000
THE KATIE CROWELL FOUNDATION$11,000
QUINCY SCHOOL COMMUNITY PARTNERSH$10,000
MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BCNC: $1k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $100k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICE: $5k → 7%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $1k → 7%NEW QUINCY CITY CLUB: $3k → 7%QUINCY CITY CLUB: $3k → 7%MIKE'S 5K TO CRUSH SUBSTANCE ABUSE: $500 → 7%MIKE'S 5K TO CRUSH SUBSTANCE ABUSE: $250 → 7%QUINCY CITY CLUB: $3k → 7%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $1k → 7%LOST COIN WOMEN'S FUND: $125 → 7%LOST COIN WOMEN'S FUND: $125 → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$903k · 36 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
26

Total granted

$903k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+8%

Still filing today

53%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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
    3× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +21%
  • QC
    QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $108k · revenue +31%
  • TB
    THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
  • TG
    THE GLOBE SANTA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF QUINCY CHARITABLE FOUNDAT
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -13%
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
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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2
Wareham Girls Softball

Town Girls Softball league, consisting of approximately 100 girls who play between April and October.

Recreation & Sports
3
Lowell Youth Sports Foundation

Youth sports

Recreation & Sports
4
Quincy Youth Soccer League Inc

Athletic enrichment of children

Recreation & Sports
5
Wareham Gatemen Baseball Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Tyngsborough Youth Baseball Association Inc

Youth Baseball

Recreation & Sports
7
Holliston Historical Society
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8
Quaboag Hills Community Coalition Inc

Qhcc works to help people of quaboag hills region in western massachusetts with basic needs and problems.

Public Benefit
9
Old Rochester Youth Baseball Inc

To foster, encourage and engage in youth athletics

Recreation & Sports
10
Quincy Athletic Development Association

Conduct high scholl basketball tournament to provide funds for quincy high school athletic programs.

Recreation & Sports
11
Melrose Youth Hockey Association Inc

To provide a youth hockey program for approximately 300 children, ages 4 through 17, within the city of melrose, ma. this program provides an opportunity for the youth to skate and to learn hockey skills while providing recreation for the…

Recreation & Sports
12
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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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 Quincy Historical Society. 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

31 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. 31 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
15/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEIGHBORWORKS HOUSING SOLUTIONS: $116,000 · OtherNEIGHBORWORKS HOUSING SOLUTIONSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $109,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYQUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $107,500 · OtherQUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INCWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $106,000 · OtherWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INCGERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRY: $104,500 · OtherGERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRYADAMS PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: $100,000 · OtherADAMS PRESIDENTIAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $57,101 · OtherIndividual grant recipientQUINCY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $28,500 · Other+44 more: $73,876 · Other+44 moreINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SO…QUINCY CITY CLUB INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesQUINCY CITY C…+4 more: $4,000 · Human Servicesholbrook food pantry: $100,500 · Food & Nutritionholbrook f…THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyKATIE CROWELL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyQUINCY LIONS CHARITIES INC: $2,750 · PhilanthropyROTARY CLUB OF QUINCY CHARITABLE FOUNDAT: $2,500 · PhilanthropyANGEL FUND INC: $12,000 · HealthMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $11,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 · HealthCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterQUINCY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,150 · Recreation & SportsHOLBROOK LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsWeymouth Cal Ripken Baseball League Inc: $550 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsHOLBROOK LITTLE LEAGUE: $500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $150 · Recreation & Sports
Other$802,477Human Services$126,500Food & Nutrition$100,500Philanthropy$32,250Health$24,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Recreation & Sports$4,850

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $115,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetQUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $107,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $106,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetholbrook food pantry: $100,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FUND INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUINCY CITY CLUB INC: $7,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetQUINCY LIONS CHARITIES INC: $2,750 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF QUINCY CHARITABLE FOUNDAT: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetQUINCY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,150 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLBROOK LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIKE'S 5K TO CRUSH SUBSTANCE ABUSE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWeymouth Cal Ripken Baseball League Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLBROOK LITTLE LEAGUE: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEastern Nazarene College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLost Coin Womens Fund Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEYMOUTH JUNIOR BASKETBALL LEAGUE: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSSCYC INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY YOUTH ARENA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds holbrook food pantry ↗
  • Who funds THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KATIE CROWELL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY CITY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF QUINCY CHARITABLE FOUNDAT ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HOLBROOK LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…South Shore Bank Char…Arbella Insurance Fou…The Flatley FoundationRockland Trust - Blue…American Tower Corpor…Copeland Family Found…The Harborone Foundat…United Way Of Massach…Boston Foundation IncVerizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA28.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Flatley Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Copeland Family Foundation Inc · The Harborone Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colonial Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Manet Community Health Center Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Quincy Community Action Programs Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Quincy Youth Arena Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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