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Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc

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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of MARC & ERNEST PALLOTTA FOUNDATION INC’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.

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA$2,887
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PROJECT NEW HOPE INC$500
SALVATION ARMY WORCESTER CITADEL CORPS$500
JEREMIAH'S INN$500
ABBY'S HOUSE$500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES - WORCESTER COUNTY$500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%YWCA OF CENTRAL MA: $500 → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MA: $500 → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $500 → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $500 → 11%URBAN MISSIONARIES OUR LADY OF HOPE: $500 → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $500 → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $500 → 11%TASKS FOR TRANSIT: $500 → 11%TASKS FOR TRANSIT: $500 → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $500 → 11%THE BOLTON COMMUNITY FUND: $500 → 11%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43k · 23 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
30

Total granted

$43k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+37%

Still filing today

57%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • JI
    JEREMIAH'S INN INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $2k · revenue +111%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +32%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k

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
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health
2
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
3
Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc

Our vision is to be a constantly growing, financially sound community health center.

Health
4
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

7
Lynn Shelter Association Inc

The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers…

Housing & Shelter
8
Outer Cape Health Services Inc

Outer cape health services, inc.'s mission is to provide a full range of healthcare and supportive social services that promote the health and well-being of all who live in or visit the ten outermost towns of cape cod.

Health
9
North Suffolk Community Services Inc

North suffolk community services supports individuals and families across the lifespan in their pursuit of independence and stability by providing a comprehensive array of treatment and recovery services. our approach is to intervene as…

10
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc

Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…

Health
11
Victory Human Services Inc

Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.

Health
12
Project Hope Boston Inc

Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Worcester and the most unlike its peers is Bolton Community Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr15%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr18%7%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr15%58%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
2,758/21,680

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $1,500 · Other+37 more — $31,500 · Other+37 morePLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $14,407 · InternationalPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA …JEREMIAH'S INN INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'…TASKS FOR TRANSIT INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesTASKS FOR…YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CENT…FRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $500 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY …URBAN MISSIONARIES OF OUR LADY OF HOPE — $500 · Human ServicesURBAN MIS…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $500 · Human ServicesAmerican …Bolton Community Fund Inc — $500 · Human ServicesBolton Co…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,500 · HealthTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC — $800 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $1,000 · AnimalsWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC — $500 · AnimalsSPENCER AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION I — $1,100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$41,000International$14,407Human Services$6,000Health$3,900Housing & Shelter$2,000Animals$1,500Food & Nutrition$1,100

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 budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $14,407 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPENCER AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION I — $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC — $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT NEW HOPE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 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 PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC
  • Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC
  • Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds SPENCER AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION I
  • Who funds VETERANS INC
  • Who funds TASKS FOR TRANSIT INC
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS 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.

Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Wyman Gordon · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Worcester County Food Bank Inc · Coghlin Services Fund · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Woosox 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 Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc 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 · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Veterans Inc58% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc39% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc8% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc2% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc 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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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