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Commonwealth Cares Fund Inc

Commonwealth cares fund, inc.

$594k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$213k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$605kHuman Services$355kHealth$250kFood & Nutrition$146kYouth Development$143kEducation$120kInternational$120kPhilanthropy$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $462,180, the rows itemized in this filing. The $594,391 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $132,211 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $313k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$212,500
FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING$100,000
MAKE A WISH MASSACHUSETTS & RHODE ISLAND$33,161
HEALTHY WALTHAM INC$24,622
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$10,250
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC$10,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC$10,000
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS INC$10,000
CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK INC$10,000
OXFAM AMERICA INC$10,000
THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC$9,018
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC$6,629
FAIRWAY TO HEAVEN$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $674k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR HOMELESS: $29k → 16%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $43k → 17%SAMMY'S HOUSE: $6k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING: $100k → 14%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $25k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING: $50k → 14%FEEDING AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $10k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING: $25k → 14%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $7k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING: $25k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING: $25k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $213k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $62k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $20k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$823k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
28

Total granted

$1.0M
$773k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & 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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2021–2024 · $284k · revenue +27%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +99%
  • TA
    THE ARTHUR PROJECT
    2× · 2020–2022 · $68k · revenue +318%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2017 · $153k
  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS RED CRESCENT SOC AT THE UN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $61k · revenue -38%
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
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Healthwise Incorporated

The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.

Health
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
10
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Soc At the Un Inc. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $284,310 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constit…FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC: $250,250 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INCTHE ARTHUR PROJECT: $68,343 · Human ServicesTHE ARTHUR PROJECTBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $29,106 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $26,629 · Human Services+3 more: $30,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN RED CROSS: $152,995 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSINTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS RED CRESCENT SOC AT THE UN INC: $60,750 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED C…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $42,550 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $41,250 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,025 · OtherKIDS4PEACE INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $35,250 · OtherJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD B…NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 · OtherOXFAM AMERICA ACTION FUND INC: $20,000 · OtherVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $29,556 · OtherVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA…+9 more: $73,800 · Other+9 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $73,161 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH …AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,178 · HealthAMERICAN CAN…CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT …SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $28,606 · HealthSEMPER FI & …Healthy Waltham Inc: $24,622 · HealthHealthy Walt…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $5,450 · HealthThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyThe New E…THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN D…INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyINVEST IN…THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $14,518 · PhilanthropyTHE RED S…BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationREAD TO A CHILD INC: $43,778 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $20,000 · EducationDANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC: $6,500 · EducationHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $50,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $14,800 · InternationalVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · International
Human Services$689,138Other$551,176Health$204,517Philanthropy$164,518Education$120,278Youth Development$75,000International$74,800

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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $284,310 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC: $250,250 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $73,161 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARTHUR PROJECT: $68,343 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS RED CRESCENT SOC AT THE UN INC: $60,750 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $43,778 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $42,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $41,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $35,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,178 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $29,556 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $29,106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $26,629 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc: $24,622 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM AMERICA ACTION FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $14,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $14,518 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFairway to Heaven: $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $5,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMMYS HOUSE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $5,200 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Analog Devices Founda…Renaissance Charitabl…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC13× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Analog Devices Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation

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 Commonwealth Cares Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonwealth Cares Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Commonwealth Cares Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Commonwealth Cares Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

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 47 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 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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