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Greater Fall River Development Corp at a glance

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Greater Fall River Development Corp

Business and job development.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.3MInternational$140kCommunity Improvement$95kYouth Development$71kArts & Culture$60kHealth$41kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Holy Trinity School$50,000
Junior Achievement of Southern Mass$35,000
People Incorporated$25,000
Argosy Collegiate Charter School$20,000
Fall River Deaconess Home$8,372
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FREETOWN-LAKEVILLE REGIONAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $25k → 8%ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $30k → 8%TOWN OF SOMERSET SOMERSET PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $26k → 11%uAspire: $30k → 16%ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $30k → 8%GREATER FALL RIVER VOCATIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT DIMAN: $75k → 11%UASPIRE INC: $20k → 16%CITY OF FALL RIVER MA TALBOT INNOVATION MIDDLE SCHOOL: $30k → 8%CITY OF SOMERSET SOMERSET BERKLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $16k → 11%uAspire: $15k → 16%ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $10k → 8%GREATER FALL RIVER VOCATIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT DIMAN: $25k → 11%UASPIRE INC: $15k → 16%ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $10k → 8%SOMERSET BERKLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 11%UASPIRE INC: $15k → 16%VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL COMMITTEE: $25k → 11%TOWN OF SOMERSET - CHACE STREET SCHOOL: $15k → 11%THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $20k → 11%SOMERSET BERKLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $15k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $35k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MASS: $35k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $35k → 11%Junior Achievement of Southern Mass: $35k → 11%SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - EMERGENCY FUND: $25k → 11%Junior Achievement of Southern Mass: $25k → 11%Bristol Community College Foundation Inc: $1.0M → 11%HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL: $50k → 11%Holy Trinity School: $50k → 11%Fall River Historical Society: $25k → 11%STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES: $25k → 11%FALL RIVER DEACONESSS HOME: $11k → 11%People Incorporated: $25k → 11%DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER - HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL: $15k → 11%DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER - HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL: $15k → 11%Argosy Collegiate Charter School: $30k → 11%ARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL: $25k → 11%Argosy Collegiate Charter School: $20k → 11%ARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL: $15k → 11%University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Foundation: $1.0M → 11%University of MA - Dartmouth: $75k → 11%Westport Community Schools: $100k → 11%TOWN OF WESTPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%TOWN OF WESTPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%TOWN OF WESTPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $30k → 11%Westport Community Schools: $25k → 11%COACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $20k → 11%TOWN OF WESTPORT WESTPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: $15k → 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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 13 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-6%

Still filing today

38%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +31%
  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +212%
  • CF
    COACHING FOR CHANGE INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +310%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bristol Community College Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -54%
  • UO
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +51% · 45% of their budget
  • FR
    FREETOWN-LAKEVILLE REGIONAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
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
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
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
9
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
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 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Committee 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 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bristol Community College Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 · EducationBristol Community College Foundation IncUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation: $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth FoundationUASPIRE INC: $105,000 · Education+1 more: $40,000 · EducationCITY OF FALL RIVER: $453,019 · OtherCITY OF FALL RIVERTOWN OF WESTPORT: $279,924 · OtherTOWN OF WESTPORTHOLY TRINITY SCHOOL: $130,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY SCHOOLGREATER FALL RIVER VOCATIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100,233 · OtherGREATER FALL RIVER VOCATIONAL SCHOOL DI…ARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherARGOSY COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $80,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS+9 more: $188,087 · Other+9 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MA: $165,000 · InternationalENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementVIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL WALL COMMITTEE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFall River Historical Society: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME: $26,392 · HealthSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,145,000Other$1,321,263International$165,000Community Improvement$90,000Arts & Culture$50,000Health$26,392Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBristol Community College Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MA: $165,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME: $26,392 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL WALL COMMITTEE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFall River Historical Society: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC: $1,000 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 Bristol Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MA ↗
  • Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds COACHING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FALL RIVER DEACONESS HOME ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL WALL COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Fall River Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER 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.

Bristol County Saving…The Carney Family Cha…Southcoast Community …Rockland Trust Charit…Philip Snyder Foundat…The Rhode Island Comm…Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Philip Snyder Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Greater Fall River Development Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Fall River Development Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • People Incorporated: 85% of income from government
  • Fall River Deaconess Home: 78% of income from government
  • Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Fall River Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Greater Fall River Development Corp 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 25 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 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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