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· Private foundation

Henrietta F Dexter Tuw-Dexter Ch

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$690k
Granted FY2018
33
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$174k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Philanthropy$351kHuman Services$185kEducation$125kCommunity Improvement$114kArts & Culture$113kHealth$102kPublic Benefit$100kHousing & Shelter$62kOther$0
02FY2018 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k7 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $475k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $174k
$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W MASS$173,911
FRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD$40,000
BAYSTATE HEALTH FDN INC$26,000
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORP$25,900
NEW NORTH CITIZEN'S COUNCIL$25,000
COMMONWEALTH CORP FDN$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSSETTS$24,900
GRAY HOUSE INC$22,000
WAY FINDERS INC$21,600
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES$20,000
STAVROS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT$20,000
RFK ACADEMY CHILDERNS ACTION$20,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC$20,000
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SHELTER$19,800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY: $25k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD: $15k → 17%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 11%RICK S PLACE INC: $8k → 17%SUNSHINE VILLAGE INC: $6k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CTR INC: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$485k · 5 repeat orgs$867k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
30

Total granted

$485k
$428k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+133%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SM
    SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $51k · revenue +22%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +44%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +246%

Funded once

  • SR
    SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +93%
  • SM
    SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +135%
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +288%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc

To utilize and provide resources that assist people in need, to obtain economic stability, ulimately creating a better way of life. the organization provides services to the residents of the greater springfield area.

Education
5
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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6
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
7
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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8
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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9
Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc

Masshire hampden county workforce board, inc. plans, coordinates and oversees the growth and effective use of public and private investment in workforce development initiatives for quality jobs. the board provides leadership in creating…

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10
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
11
The Arc of Bristol County Inc

To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…

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12
Springwell Inc

Springwell helps individuals improve their quality of life and reduce their need for residential care by helping them access community resources. springwell works with individuals directly as well as with government agencies, health…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empty Arms Bereavement Support Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%29%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr15%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
10%
1,022/9,834

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
34/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W MASS — $322,948 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W MASSFRIENDS OF THE SPRINGFIELD — $40,000 · Other+37 more — $529,700 · Other+37 moreMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesMENTAL HEALT…SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION — $29,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD …SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLE…YMCA of Greater Springfield Inc — $15,050 · Human ServicesYMCA of Grea…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS…Ricks Place Inc — $7,650 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $7,400 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE VILLAGE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $45,000 · Community ImprovementBLUES TO GREEN INC — $21,200 · Community ImprovementVALLEY VENTURE MENTORING SERVICE INC — $17,500 · Community ImprovementSPRINGFIELD CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP INC ATTN KAREN FINN — $12,500 · Community ImprovementSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION — $50,900 · EducationUP EDUCATION NETWORK — $17,800 · EducationRAR-MA INC — $12,500 · EducationLINK TO LIBRARIES INC — $8,000 · EducationBay Path University — $5,000 · EducationWAY FINDERS INC — $21,600 · Housing & ShelterGREATER SPRINGFIELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterROCA INC — $19,800 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK MEN OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKISTNER FOUNDATION INC RED GATE FARM — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMONWEALTH CORPORATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyREADER TO READER INC — $12,000 · Philanthropy
Other$892,648Human Services$150,100Community Improvement$96,200Education$94,200Housing & Shelter$41,600Youth Development$39,800Philanthropy$37,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION — $50,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION — $29,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH CORPORATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetREVITALIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $22,200 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Gray House Inc — $22,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetWAY FINDERS INC — $21,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUES TO GREEN INC — $21,200 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetGREATER SPRINGFIELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetROCA INC — $19,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $19,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUP EDUCATION NETWORK — $17,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY VENTURE MENTORING SERVICE INC — $17,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Greater Springfield Inc — $15,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRAR-MA INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP INC ATTN KAREN FINN — $12,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $12,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDRAMA STUDIO INCORPORATED — $8,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP PIONEER VALLEY INC — $8,400 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLINK TO LIBRARIES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetRicks Place Inc — $7,650 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $7,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC — $6,800 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSUNSHINE VILLAGE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Path University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPTY ARMS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT INC — $4,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC — $2,400 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Beveridge Family …The Irene E and Georg…Berkshire Bank Founda…Massmutual Foundation…United Bank Foundatio…Easthampton Savings B…Peoples United Commun…Shatz Schwartz and Fe…Chicopee Savings Bank…Florence Savings Char…Td Charitable Foundat…
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA65.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Massmutual Foundation Inc · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Td 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 Henrietta F Dexter Tuw-Dexter Ch 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.

2024
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no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Sunshine Village Inc — 93% of income from government
  • Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Black Men of Greater Springfield Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association Inc — 66% of income from government
  • The Performance Project Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Springfield Cultural Partnership Inc Attn Karen Finn — 31% of income from government
  • Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Ricks Place Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Springfield Jewish Community Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Blues to Green Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Partners for a Healthier Community Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
  • Way Finders Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Bay Path University — 3% of income from government
  • Drama Studio Incorporated — 2% of income from government
  • Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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