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Howard Home Trustees Home for Aged Men Brockton

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$881kEducation$235kHealth$152kPublic Benefit$136kFood & Nutrition$30kPhilanthropy$15kCivil Rights$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
$13,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STONEHILL COLLEGE$25,000
OLD COLONY YMCA$25,000
MY BROTHERS KEEPER$16,000
BROCKTON COUNCIL ON AGING$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
BAMSI DORN DAVIES SENIOR CENTER$12,000
BAMSI$12,000
OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES$10,000
TOWN OF WEST BRIDGEWATER COA$8,000
TOWN OF BRIDGEWATER COA$8,000
ALLIANCE HEALTH AT WEST ACRES$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OLD COLONY Y: $40k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $16k → 11%OLD COLONY Y: $35k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $15k → 11%OLD COLONY Y: $35k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $15k → 11%OLD COLONY Y: $35k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $15k → 11%OLD COLONY Y: $35k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $15k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $15k → 11%OLD COLONY Y: $25k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $15k → 11%OLD COLONY Y: $25k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $25k → 8%OLD COLONY Y: $25k → 8%FRIENDS OF COUNCIL ON AGING: $20k → 8%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 24 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
15

Total granted

$1.6M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
0%

Still filing today

25%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • OC
    OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +49%
  • SC
    STONEHILL COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +26%
  • OC
    OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • BV
    Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF COUNCIL ON AGING
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • BH
    Brockton Hospital Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%

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
Signature Healthcare Medical Group Inc

To support the medical, educational, scientific and charitable purpose of brockton hospital by improving access to medical care provided by the hospital.

Health
2
Lutheran Housing Corporation - Brockton

We are called to strengthen communities by empowering people to respond to life's challenges.

Health
3
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
4
Masonic Health System of Massachusetts Inc

To sponsor, develop, offer and/or promote services and programs relating to the care, treatment and healing of humans, which services and programs are charitable, scientific, and/or educational and which address the physical and mental…

Philanthropy
5
Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals Inc

Support the advocacy of community hospitals.

Health
6
Overlook Masonic Health Center Inc

To provide the residents of the health center with the highest level of comprehensive medical care services with a considerate and personal touch.

Health
7
Bristol Hospital Inc

Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
9
Overlook Visiting Nurse Association Inc

To promote and provide efficient home health and hospice services across the continuum for residents of the commonwealth of massachusetts with emphasis on health and well being.

Health
10
Bristol Aging & Wellness Inc

Founded in 1973, bristol aging & wellness, inc. is a private non-profit corporation, designated as an aging services access point and an area agency on aging. bristol serves as the entry point for elder services in southeastern…

Human Services
11
Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.

Human Services
12
Brookdale Family Care Center Inc

We provide greater access to high quality medical care and keep our communities healthy through an integrated care system that respects the diversity of our communities and addresses both the health needs and unique factors that shape them.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Colony Elder Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Council On Aging. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC — $130,000 · OtherOLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INCBROCKTON COUNCIL ON AGING — $80,000 · OtherBROCKTON COUNCIL ON AGINGSignature Healthcare Corporation — $80,000 · OtherSignature Healthcare CorporationIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWN OF BRIDGEWATER ELDER SERVICES — $62,500 · OtherTOWN OF BRIDGEWATER ELDER SERVICESBAMSI-DORN DAVIES CENTER — $60,000 · OtherBAMSI-DORN DAVIES CENTEREAST BRIDGEWATER COUNCIL ON AGING — $55,000 · OtherTOWN OF WEST BRIDEWATER COA — $52,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · Other+23 more — $378,500 · Other+23 moreOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $280,000 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHR…My Brothers Keeper Inc — $106,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper IncFRIENDS OF COUNCIL ON AGING — $20,000 · Human ServicesSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $196,000 · EducationSTONEHILL CO…Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc — $25,000 · HealthBrockton Hospital Inc — $20,000 · HealthTHE CHARITY GUILD INC — $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,088,000Human Services$406,000Education$196,000Health$45,000Food & Nutrition$30,000

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 budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $280,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $196,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC — $130,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc — $106,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSignature Healthcare Corporation — $80,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHARITY GUILD INC — $30,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBrockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrockton Hospital Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC
  • Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc
  • Who funds Signature Healthcare Corporation
  • Who funds THE CHARITY GUILD INC
  • Who funds Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF COUNCIL ON AGING
  • Who funds Brockton Hospital 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · George Edgar Curtis Home Fund Richard J Lawton Esq Co-Trustee · Goddard Health Services Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Howard Home Trustees Home for Aged Men Brockton 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Old Colony Elder Services Inc59% of income from government
  • Brockton Hospital Inc13% of income from government
  • The Charity Guild Inc10% of income from government
  • Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc1% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Howard Home Trustees Home for Aged Men Brockton?

Find your warmest path to Howard Home Trustees Home for Aged Men Brockton 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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