· Private foundation
Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of FLORENCE SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k87 grants · $235k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY | $52,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER | $25,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| HAMPSHIRE REGIONAL YMCA | $21,000 |
| CARING HEALTH CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| PARLOR ROOM | $20,000 |
| SQUARE ONE | $20,000 |
| COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL | $19,552 |
| BELCHERTOWN LITTLE LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC | $12,516 |
| WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $11,000 |
| CANCER CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| PIONEER VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| JONES LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 54 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +95%- NSNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +54%
- DPDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TCTotal Contributions Paidone grant, 2024 · $468k
EMPTY ARMS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +17%- WSWEST SPRINGFIELD CARE COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county
To provide affordable space for artists, performers and educators. to offer arts progamming in northampton massachusetts.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
The North End Food Pantry is a volunteer-run organization located in the North End of Burlington, Vermont, dedicated to providing free food, clothing, and personal care items to individuals and families in need.
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
Holyoke Community Childcare HCC cultivates child, family and community well-being and progress.
The newton food pantry works to alleviate food insecurity by providing free supplemental food and personal care products to community members in need, serving clients with dignity, compassion and respect.
The Needham Historical Society (d/b/a Needham History Center & Museum) is a local non-profit whose mission is to engage and educate the community about the history of the town and its people, and to preserve the treasures of Needham's…
Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.
Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tapestry 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 142 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
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 UNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds DAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORBES LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WILLIAMSBURG LIBRARIES INC ↗
- Who funds GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Parlor Room ↗
- Who funds CARING HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds MANNA SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds EASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELCHERTOWN LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD HOPKINS EDUC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONES LIBRARY 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · The Zoe Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Ro Family Foundation · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation
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 Florence Savings 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.
- Mental Health Association Inc — 66% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Riverside Industries Inc — 61% of income from government
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc — 55% of income from government
- Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Caring Health Center Inc — 39% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Manna Soup Kitchen — 15% of income from government
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc — 14% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
- Tech Foundry Inc — 6% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Belchertown Day School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northampton Arts Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Rachel's Table of Western Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region — 2% of income from government
- Ludlow Boys and Girls Club Inc — 2% of income from government
- Parish Cupboard Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Parlor Room — 0% of income from government
- Historic Northampton Inc — 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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