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Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HALE EDUCATION INC | $50,000 |
| MOTHER BROOKS ARTS & COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,675 |
| DEDHAM FOOD PANTRY | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY | $10,000 |
| PVA NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,186 |
| COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE | $7,000 |
| UP EDUCATION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| USCC HYDE PARK FOOD PANTRY | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HEHALE EDUCATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +108%
- DCDedham Community Association Inc3× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +22%
- DHDedham Historical Society3× · 2017–2021 · $37k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TSTHE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTONone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -33%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESSone grant, 2018 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westwood Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 207 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds Dedham Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Dedham Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY STATE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
- Communities for People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Walpole Community Food Pantry Inc — 37% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Self Help Inc — 27% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- Walpole Footlighters Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc — 4% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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