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Heritagesalem Five Charitable Foundatio
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES NORTH | $10,000 |
| CHELSEA RESTORATION CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| ROOT NS INC | $5,000 |
| MERRY MIXERS | $5,000 |
| LA VIDA INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE MOVING MARKET | $5,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $5,000 |
| CITIZENS INC | $5,000 |
| SALEM PANTRY | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM | $5,000 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS INC | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON | $5,000 |
| LANDMARK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE FOOD PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
The Organizations mission is to ensure equal access to healthy, local food to all members of the North Shore Communities in a manner that builds community, fosters connection and promotes dignity and self-reliance.
The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.
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…
Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…
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…
Providing meals and food to the homeless and low-income individuals
Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.
Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.
The corporation was organized in melrose, massachusetts to promote food access, food justice, and climate action. we partner with commercial and community sources to rescue wholesome food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it…
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Serving the northshore by providing access to basic needs.
To provide developmental and educational instruction for children ages 2-5 years of age.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Shore Moving Market Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 CHELSEA RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds LA VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE MOVING MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Merry Mixers 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: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance 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 Heritagesalem Five Charitable Foundatio 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.
- Chelsea Restoration — 44% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% 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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