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Joseph Perini Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of JOSEPH PERINI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $8,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS | $8,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $6,400 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| A PLACE TO TURN | $5,500 |
| NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC | $5,400 |
| NATICK OPEN DOOR | $5,400 |
| THE DRAKE HOUSE | $5,100 |
| TEAM MAGGIE FOR A CURE INC | $5,100 |
| MICHAEL CARTER LISNOW RESPITE CENTER | $5,000 |
| TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| WINDRUSH FARMS | $5,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FANNIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION | $4,800 |
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 (FY20–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +39%
- APA Place To Turn Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +106%
- WLWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +141%
Funded once
PINE STREET INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +36%- RJRAYMOND J CALLAHAN SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2020 · $7k
- SASALVATION ARMY - DISASTER RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide low income elderly housing.
To provide and coordinate lodging for our active military, veteran, and retired military families being treated at hospitals in the boston area.
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…
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.
Provide low income elderly housing
To provide shelter for the homeless
Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.
Tarry House operates group homes to provide shelter, food and,services to adults with severe mental disorders
To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans and the most unlike its peers is Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 NATICKS OPEN DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds A Place To Turn Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FEED FANNIN INC ↗
- Who funds FANNIN CTY EMPTY STOCKING PGM INC ↗
- Who funds Fannin County Family Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Anderson Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds The Drake House Inc ↗
- Who funds Team Maggie for a Cure Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds North Falmouth Village Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH FALMOUTH ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CENTER OF WALTHAM 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Verizon Foundation · AbbVie 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 Joseph Perini Memorial Foundation 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.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Programs for People Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Day Center of Waltham Inc — 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% 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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