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Greater Lynn Senior Services Inc

Glss is the critical coordinating partner--marshaling resources and supplying the tools that turn small efforts into sustained community impact.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$74kHuman Services$44kCommunity Improvement$43kCrime & Legal$20k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $136k
$11,325
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MY BROTHER'S TABLE$22,000
NEW LYNN COALITION$21,380
YMCA OF METRO NORTH INC$20,714
NORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC$20,250
THE OPEN DOOR$19,387
NEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC$11,325
HIGHLANDS COALITION INC$10,725
SALEM FOOD PANTRY$10,500
CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON$8,880
THE SALVATION ARMY$7,878
LYNN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY$6,252
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF METRO NORTH INC: $21k → 10%LYNN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $6k → 10%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 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
Open Table Inc

Open table's mission is to address hunger in our local community by providing healthy food in a welcoming environment that respects the dignity and diversity of those served. we achieve our mission by offering a wide variety of healthy and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Citizens Inn Inc

The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)

Housing & Shelter
3
Our Neighbors' Table Inc

The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…

Human Services
4
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc

The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.

Human Services
5
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

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6
New England Justice for Our Neighbors
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7
International Institute of New England Inc

For more than a century, the international institute of new england (iine) has helped refugees and immigrants build stable, self-sufficient lives through integrated services spanning resettlement, education, employment, and pathways to…

Civil Rights
8
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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9
Northeast Arc Inc

Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.

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10
The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp

The family pantry's mission is to provide food and clothing to those in need without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, residence, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, handicap, veteran, or any other status.

Food & Nutrition
11
Urban League of Eastern Masschusetts Inc

The mission of the urban league of eastern massachusetts is to enable adults in eastern ma to overcome racial, social barriers, economic inequities, sexual and domestic violence to employment and economic development opportunities. for…

Human Services
12
Lynn Shelter Association Inc

The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLANDS COALITION: $32,105 · OtherHIGHLANDS COALITIONTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $24,999 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INCMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC: $22,000 · OtherMY BROTHER'S TABLE INCCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $8,880 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,878 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $20,714 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE NORT…LEO INC: $6,252 · Human ServicesLEO INCSALEM PANTRY INC: $26,880 · Food & NutritionSALEM PANTRY INCNORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC: $20,250 · Crime & LegalNORTHEAST LE…NEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $11,325 · Community Improvement
Other$95,862Human Services$26,966Food & Nutrition$26,880Crime & Legal$20,250Community Improvement$11,325

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSALEM PANTRY INC: $26,880 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $24,999 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $20,714 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $11,325 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $8,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEO INC: $6,252 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Essex County Community Foundation IncMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation 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 Lynn Senior Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Lynn Senior Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • New American Association of Massachusetts Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Salem Pantry Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Northeast Legal Aid Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 10 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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