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Knights of Columbus Massachusetts State Council Charity Fund
Charity fund
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $67,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $156,290 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $89,290 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEAST ARC | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $17,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC3× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +40%- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS2× · 2017–2018 · $35k
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- HOHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $64k · revenue +482%
- TATHE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $64k · revenue +39%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME INCone grant, 2024 · $54k · revenue +8%
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.
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
The arc of essex county provides advocacy and services empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to realize a lifetime of personal achievement and full partnership in the community.
To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.
Brockton area arc inc will work in partnership with and for the community to provide advocacy, information and direct services that offer new opportunities and choice for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To serve and advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and autism.
To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.
To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.
To empower and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. this organization will utilize all its resources to ensure that our individuals served, their families and all people with intellectual and…
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of the South Shore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Face (Foundation for Advancement of Christian Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 27 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 CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds FACE Inc ↗
- Who funds FACE (FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ↗
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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Roessner Family Foundation Inc · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Imagine Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Knights of Columbus Massachusetts State Council Charity Fund 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.
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% 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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