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Fall River Women's Union at a glance

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Fall River Women's Union

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Human Services$174kYouth Development$173kEducation$126kHealth$72kFood & Nutrition$50kReligion$38kArts & Culture$37kCrime & Legal$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BG CLUB$8,750
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION$6,000
YMCA SOUTHCOAST INC$5,500
STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$5,000
COACHING4CHANGE$4,500
GNOME INC$4,500
STEPPINGSTONE INC$4,000
FALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME$4,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NE$3,850
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF FR$3,500
FRIENDS OF THE FR LIBRARY$3,415
NINTH STREET DAY NURSERY$2,705
SAINT VINCENT'S SERVICES INC$2,500
SOUTHCOAST VISITING NURSE ASSOC$2,500
ARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL$2,040
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $500 → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $500 → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $500 → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $1k → 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $500 → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $500 → 11%SAINT VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $6k → 11%SAINT VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $6k → 11%SAINT VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $3k → 11%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES INC: $2k → 11%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES: $500 → 11%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES: $500 → 11%BRISTOL ELDER SERVICES: $500 → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$738k · 72 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
24

Total granted

$738k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+32%

Still filing today

46%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • FR
    FALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +78%
  • NR
    NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +250%
  • SI
    STEPPINGSTONE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER - HOLY NAME SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • Girls on the Run Rhode Islandgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +32%
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
Bristol County Chamber of Commerce Inc

Operates as the primary business and community information source for its members and the public; to provide networking opportunities for its members and serve as an advocate on behalf of its members at the local,state and federal…

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2
Samaritans of Fall River New Bedford Ma Inc

Suicide Prevention

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3
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
4
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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5
The Arc of Bristol County Inc

To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…

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6
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
7
Riverside Industries Inc

Riverside empowers individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live rich and full lives.

Human Services
8
The River Center Family & Community Resource Center

Providing community connections, parenting support, job search skills, tax and money coaching to strengthen individuals and families in the eastern monadnock region.

Human Services
9
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
10
Southeast Center for Independent Living Inc

The philosophy of independent living, maintains that individuals with disabilities have the right to choose services and make decisions for themselves. this belief is the foundation and guiding principle in all of the policies and…

Housing & Shelter
11
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
12
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Fall River Inc; the most unlike its peers is David Strong Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 100 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $54,094 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATIONSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $24,500 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND: $23,630 · OtherTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BG CLUB: $21,750 · OtherNINTH STREET DAY NURSERY INC: $19,840 · OtherSAINT VINCENT'S HOME: $16,500 · Other+72 more: $299,188 · Other+72 moreFALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME: $52,950 · HealthFALL RIVER DEACON…STEPPINGSTONE INC: $41,495 · HealthSTEPPINGSTONE INCSOUTHCOAST VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,050 · HealthSOUTHCOAST VISITI…GNOME INC: $13,750 · HealthGNOME INCTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $40,500 · Youth DevelopmentWATUPPA ROWING CENTER INC: $15,760 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run Rhode Island: $3,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,750 · Youth DevelopmentNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $42,210 · EducationCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $5,250 · EducationTRUSTEES OF FALL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS: $2,000 · EducationANGELS ANONYMOUS INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE FALL RIVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,600 · EducationCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC: $17,630 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $14,140 · Arts & CultureUSS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureKATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC: $24,700 · Crime & LegalSAINT VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $13,750 · Human ServicesBRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $2,500 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$459,502Health$123,245Youth Development$61,010Education$55,060Arts & Culture$34,270Crime & Legal$24,700Human Services$20,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME: $52,950 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $42,210 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE INC: $41,495 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $40,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC: $24,700 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND: $23,630 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNINTH STREET DAY NURSERY INC: $19,840 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC: $17,630 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWATUPPA ROWING CENTER INC: $15,760 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHCOAST VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $14,140 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGNOME INC: $13,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $13,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE: $9,935 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC: $7,760 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC: $6,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS CENTER OF FALL RIVER: $4,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetGirls on the Run Rhode Island: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Compton Food Bank: $2,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS ANONYMOUS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER FALL RIVER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSAINT ANNES FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTHCOAST MENTORING INITIATIVE FOR LEARNING EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBristol Community College Foundation Inc: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID STRONG FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGATES OF HOPE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% 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 FALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds KATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND ↗
  • Who funds NINTH STREET DAY NURSERY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds WATUPPA ROWING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHCOAST VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds GNOME INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
  • Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COACHING FOR CHANGE 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.

Southcoast Community …Bristol County Saving…United Way of Greater…Rockland Trust Charit…Philip Snyder Foundat…The Rhode Island Comm…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Robert F Stoicofi…Citizens Charitable F…Arbella Insurance Fou…Ida S Charlton Charit…Amica Companies Found…
Southcoast Community Foundation IncMA59.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Fall River Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Philip Snyder Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Robert F Stoicofirstfed Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Ida S Charlton Charity Fd Ua · Amica Companies 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 Fall River Women's Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fall River Women's Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • People Incorporated: 85% of income from government
  • Fall River Deaconess Home: 78% of income from government
  • Citizens for Citizens Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Child and Family Services Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Southcoast Visiting Nurse Association Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Gnome Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Children's Museum of Greater Fall River Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 100 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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