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Jmm Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$136kYouth Development$128kHealth$118kFood & Nutrition$112kRecreation & Sports$103kHuman Services$98kHousing & Shelter$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $78k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE$15,000
CAMP SUNSHINE$12,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL MA$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER$10,000
DEVEREUX SCHOOL$10,000
WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
ROSIE'S PLACE INC$6,000
CHILD'S PLAY$6,000
JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC$6,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$6,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASE CENTER$5,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MA$3,100
HEART BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC$3,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 10%HAIR WE SHARE INC: $500 → 6%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $1k → 17%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $1k → 17%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $1k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $1k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $1k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $1k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 16%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 16%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $6k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $6k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $5k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $5k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $4k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $4k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $2k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$897k · 34 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
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Total granted

$897k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+8%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $88k · revenue +6%
  • WC
    WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +56%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +39%
  • TG
    TELEGRAM & GAZETTE SANTA FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • HW
    HAIR WE SHARE
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +8%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

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2
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

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3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
5
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
Berkshire United Way Inc

Berkshire united way ignites the collective power of individuals and organizations to build a stronger and more equitable community where everyone can thrive. we magnify your contributions to make lasting, positive change right here in the…

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8
United Way of Westchester and Putnam

United way of westchester and putnam mobilizes strategic partnerships and leverages resources to create a more equitable community by advancing education, financial stability, and health initiatives.

Human Services
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
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
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
United Way of Greater Fall River Inc

United way of greater fall river (uwgfr) is a leader in the fight for equity and strives to create communities where everyone has the resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive. by uniting all segments of the community…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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

31 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. 31 of the 43 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)
29/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEVEREUX SCHOOL: $63,500 · OtherDEVEREUX SCHOOLAMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL MA: $58,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL MABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $50,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INCUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASE CENTER: $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CELIAC DISEASE CENTERGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCWHY ME INC: $24,000 · OtherWORCESTER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $20,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND DISABLED SPORTS: $15,500 · OtherCHILD'S PLAY: $37,000 · OtherCHILD'S PLAYSave The Children Federation Inc: $17,500 · Other+19 more: $102,600 · Other+19 moreCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO …Julies Family Learning Program Inc: $32,000 · Human ServicesJulies Fami…CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLO…BEYOND BEDTIME INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BEDT…+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $87,500 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUNSH…SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationBANCROFT SCHOOL: $16,500 · EducationASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $10,500 · EducationWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $70,000 · Food & NutritionHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $36,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $34,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC: $58,000 · Youth Development
Other$458,100Human Services$94,000Recreation & Sports$87,500Education$72,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Housing & Shelter$70,000Youth Development$58,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $87,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC: $58,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $37,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD'S PLAY: $37,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $32,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWHY ME INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBANCROFT SCHOOL: $16,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DISABLED SPORTS: $15,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEBSTER & DUDLEY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BEDTIME INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER TELEGRAM AND GAZETTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,900 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $3,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HEART BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHANOVER ARTS AND ACTIVITIES CENTER: $2,400 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAIR WE SHARE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD'S PLAY ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHY ME INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND DISABLED SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEBSTER & DUDLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER TELEGRAM AND GAZETTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEART BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HANOVER ARTS AND ACTIVITIES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗

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.

United Way of Central Massachusetts IncMA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Regan P Remillard Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc · Coghlin Family Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation 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 Jmm Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jmm Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pathways for Childreninc: 86% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to Jmm Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jmm Charitable Foundation 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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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