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First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k76 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MY BROTHERS KEEPER | $20,000 |
| ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING | $5,000 |
| BUZZARDS BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| YMCA FULL PLATE PROJECT | $4,752 |
| ELEMENTS LEARNING COLLABORATIVE | $3,910 |
| BRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS | $3,090 |
| FRIENDS OF BOURNE COUNCIL ON AGING | $3,000 |
| CORLINE CRONAN'S FAMILY | $3,000 |
| TAUNTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $3,000 |
| GNOME SURF | $2,540 |
| APACHE WAY FARM RESCUE | $2,500 |
| CAPE KID MEALS | $2,500 |
| OUR SISTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LINES AND SPACES | $2,500 |
| DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- MBMy Brothers Keeper Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +17%
- CFCOASTAL FOODSHED5× · 2019–2023 · $21k · revenue +282%
- NLNORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC2× · 2019–2023 · $13k · revenue +262%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $117k
- MCMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +18%
- WSWASHBURN STREET FIRE FUNDCSSone grant, 2020 · $14k
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.
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
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…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Provide low income elderly housing.
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…
To partner with individuals, families and the community to provide recovery-focused, trauma-informed, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare and to promote wellness, resiliency and hope for positive change.
Promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.
Committed to the healthy development,education,childcare,respectful eldercare, and to provide support & empowerment of all families of southeastern massachusetts, cape cod and the islands
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Women's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Taunton Civic Chorus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 265 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 My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds COASTAL FOODSHED ↗
- Who funds MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEALS AND MORE ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth Opportunities Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING 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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley 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 First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Better Community Living Inc — 95% of income from government
- The Arc of Greater Plymouth Inc — 95% of income from government
- Molife Inc — 95% of income from government
- Community Systems Inc — 92% of income from government
- Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- Fall River Deaconess Home — 78% of income from government
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- Associates for Human Services Inc — 64% of income from government
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- South Eastern Economic Development Corporation — 59% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Friends of Jack Foundation Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc — 33% of income from government
- South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
- Wareham Land Trust Inc — 27% of income from government
- Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Child and Family Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cape Cod Toy Library Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Lily House Inc — 13% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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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