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Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation at a glance

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Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$224k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$669kArts & Culture$372kHuman Services$241kHousing & Shelter$231kEducation$230kHealth$199kFood & Nutrition$196kPublic Benefit$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC$10,000
PVA NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER$10,000
CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,186
COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE$7,000
UP EDUCATION NETWORK$5,000
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HEBRON FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 11%SELF-HELP INC: $20k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY: $10k → 8%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES (HOPE): $10k → 11%SELF-HELP INC: $15k → 8%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES (HOPE): $10k → 11%GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK: $5k → 8%ABOVE THE CLOUDS: $2k → 7%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $10k → 8%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY: $15k → 16%THE DOVER NEIGHBORS FUND: $3k → 7%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $10k → 16%DEDHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $24k → 7%DEDHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 7%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $10k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 16%DEDHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 7%BRAINTREE HOLIDAYS FRIENDS: $3k → 7%BRAINTREE HOLIDAYSFRIENDS: $2k → 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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 66 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
134

Total granted

$1.4M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+24%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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 ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HE
    HALE EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +55%
  • DC
    Dedham Community Association Inc
    3× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +19%
  • DH
    Dedham Historical Society
    3× · 2017–2021 · $37k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health
2
Tenants Development Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Historic Boston Incorporated
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4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
The Cambridge Homes
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6
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

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…

Health
7
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
8
Newvue Affordable Housing Corporation

Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.

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9
Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore Inc

Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts

Housing & Shelter
10
Housing Assistance Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter
11
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
12
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 207 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
54/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF DEDHAM: $169,834 · OtherTOWN OF DEDHAMMOTHER BROOKS ARTS & COMMUNITY: $100,000 · OtherMOTHER BROOKS ARTS & COMMUNITY+156 more: $1,520,255 · Other+156 moreHALE EDUCATION INC: $295,000 · Recreation & SportsHALE EDUCATION INCTHE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SKATING CLUB OF BOS…+3 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsDedham Community Association Inc: $46,000 · Human ServicesSELF HELP INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $9,500 · Human Services+6 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,685 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDEDHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC INCORPORATED: $8,000 · Arts & CultureWALPOLE FOOTLIGHTERS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePLUGGED IN BAND PROGRAM INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,113 · Arts & CultureSCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $17,500 · HealthCOMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE INC: $7,000 · HealthITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · HealthBAY STATE LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 · EducationWALKER INC: $10,000 · EducationUP EDUCATION NETWORK: $10,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 · EducationStorytime Crafts Inc: $5,000 · EducationHomeStart Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES: $5,000 · Community ImprovementMEDFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $3,713 · Community Improvement
Other$1,790,089Recreation & Sports$560,000Human Services$188,500Arts & Culture$78,798Health$54,500Education$45,000Community Improvement$28,713

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $295,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDedham Community Association Inc: $46,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDedham Historical Society: $36,648 over 3y, 10% of budgetCHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $36,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSELF HELP INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetSCOTT HAMILTON CARES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $23,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,685 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY FARM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBAY STATE LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $11,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $11,129 over 1y, 35% of budgetBROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWALKER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUP EDUCATION NETWORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHARITY GUILD INC: $9,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOVE INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEDHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC INCORPORATED: $8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC: $7,891 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Dedham Library: $5,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetWALPOLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBarnard Place Park Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCommunity Teamwork Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 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 CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BAY STATE LEARNING CENTER ↗

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…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust - Blue…Community Foundation …United Way Of Massach…Massachusetts Bankers…Liberty Mutual Founda…Arbella Insurance Fou…Cambridge Savings Cha…Needham Bank Charitab…Middlesex Savings Cha…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA59.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
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How do I get to Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation 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 207 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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