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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.

$80k
Granted FY2018
14
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k12 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$770k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHELSEA RESTORATION CORPORATION$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES NORTH$10,000
ROOT NS INC$5,000
FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON$5,000
NORTH SHORE MOVING MARKET$5,000
RAW ART WORKS$5,000
CITIZENS INC$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM$5,000
MISSION OF DEEDS INC$5,000
LANDMARK SCHOOL$5,000
THE FOOD PROJECT$5,000
SALEM PANTRY$5,000
MERRY MIXERS$5,000
LA VIDA INC$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MISSION OF DEEDS INC: $5k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON: $5k → 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
Nourishing the North Shore Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc

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.

Human Services
3
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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4
Boston Public Market Association Inc

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…

Public Benefit
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
Manna Soup Kitchen

Providing meals and food to the homeless and low-income individuals

Food & Nutrition
7
Food Link Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
Central Ma Food Rescue Inc

Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Food Drive Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Cooks Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Northshore Food Bank

Serving the northshore by providing access to basic needs.

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12
North Shore Nursery School Inc

To provide developmental and educational instruction for children ages 2-5 years of age.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Pantry Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES NORTH: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES NORTHNORTH SHORE MOVING MARKET INC: $5,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE MOVING MARKET INCCITIZENS INC: $5,000 · OtherCITIZENS INCRAW ART WORKS INC: $5,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCROOT NS INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionROOT NS INCSALEM PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSALEM PANTRY INCThe Food Project Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionThe Food Project IncCHELSEA RESTORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCHELSEA RESTOR…FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE…Mission of Deeds Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesMission of Dee…LA VIDA INC: $5,000 · ReligionLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMerry Mixers Inc: $5,000 · Health
Other$25,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Human Services$10,000Religion$5,000Education$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$5,000

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 budgetCHELSEA RESTORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLA VIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH SHORE MOVING MARKET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROOT NS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Salem Five Charitable Foundation IncMA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Heritagesalem Five Charitable Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heritagesalem Five Charitable Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
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)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Heritagesalem Five Charitable Foundatio 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 14 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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