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Gertrude a Pomeroy Charitable Trust at a glance

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Gertrude a Pomeroy Charitable Trust

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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$56kHuman Services$38kEnvironment$28kRecreation & Sports$15kAnimals$10kFood & Nutrition$8kArts & Culture$7kEducation$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$671k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YARMOUTH FOOD PANTRY$4,000
HANDS OF HOPE FOOD PANTRY$4,000
A BABY CENTER$4,000
BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST$4,000
WE CAN$3,000
DENNIS UNION CHURCH$3,000
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WE CAN CORPORATION: $3k → 8%WE CAN: $3k → 8%WE CAN: $3k → 8%WE CAN CORPORATION: $3k → 8%WE CAN: $2k → 8%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 8 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
22

Total granted

$106k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • BC
    BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST
    7× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +105%
  • WC
    WE CAN CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +121%
  • HI
    HEROES IN TRANSITION INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • VI
    Village Improvement Society of Dennis
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +766%
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
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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2
The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc

To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod

Environment
3
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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5
Truro Historical Societyinc

The mission of the truro historical society is to acquire, protect, display and maintain artifacts of interest to the general public, with special emphasis on the truro community. displays will rotate, new items acquired, educational and…

Arts & Culture
6
Cobscook Shores Inc
Philanthropy
7
Social Service League of Cohasset Inc
Health
8
Lower Cape Communications Inc

To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts

Arts & Culture
9
Cohasset 250

250th Town of Cohasset, MA celebrations

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10
Oceanside Conservation Trust

The organization works to conserve wild or underdeveloped open space, scenic areas, and historic landmarks in the casco bay region.

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11
Harwich Conservation Trust

Preservation and conservation of open space in harwich, massachusetts

Environment
12
Bourne Conservation Trust

To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Cod Children's Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sheas Youth Basketball Association 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

14 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. 14 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENNIS UNION CHURCH: $28,000 · OtherDENNIS UNION CHURCHWELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $9,000 · OtherWELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHKATELYNN'S CLOSET INC: $8,000 · OtherKATELYNN'S CLOSET INCCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WELLESLEY MA: $8,000 · OtherCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WELLESLEY MAIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherVillage Improvement Society of Dennis: $5,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5,000 · Other+18 more: $57,997 · Other+18 moreBREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST: $25,000 · EnvironmentBREWSTER CONSERV…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AU…WE CAN CORPORATION: $14,000 · Human ServicesHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $8,000 · HealthELDREDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $3,000 · EducationCAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $2,000 · EducationYARMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $4,000 · Animals
Other$126,997Environment$28,000Human Services$14,000Health$8,000Education$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Animals$4,000

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 budgetBREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST: $25,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWE CAN CORPORATION: $14,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKATELYNN'S CLOSET INC: $8,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetVillage Improvement Society of Dennis: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetYARMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCape Cod Senior Softball League: $4,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDREDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HEROES IN TRANSITION INC ↗
  • Who funds KATELYNN'S CLOSET INC ↗
  • Who funds Village Improvement Society of Dennis ↗
  • Who funds YARMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Cape Cod Senior Softball League ↗
  • Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ELDREDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEAS YOUTH BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE 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.

Cape Cod Five Cents S…Cape Cod Foundation I…Bilezikian Family Fou…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cape and Islands Unit…Cape & Coast Bank Fou…Cape Cod Healthcare I…John F & Dorothy H Ma…The Zammer Foundation…Green Family Charitab…Lyndon Paul Lorusso C…
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation TrustMA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation · The Zammer Foundation of Cape Cod · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio

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 Gertrude a Pomeroy Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gertrude a Pomeroy Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Cape Cod Children's Place Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Brewster Conservation Trust: 8% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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Find your warmest path to Gertrude a Pomeroy Charitable Trust 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 33 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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