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Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of MARLBOROUGH SAVINGS CHARITABLE 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.

02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k9 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN HILL MUSIC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO WEST$8,140
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU - MAIN STREET MATTERS PROGRAM$5,000
PACH - PEPPERELL - AID TO COMMUNITY$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NCM$5,000
QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$2,500
COMMONWEALTH GREEN LOW-INCOME HOUSING COALITIONWORCESTER COMMON GROUND$1,500
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION - FOSTER YOUTH PROGRAM$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CA FARLEY HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOC INC$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 (FY17–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION - FOSTER YOUTH PROGRAM: $1k → 11%THRIVE SUPPORT & ADVOCACY: $5k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 8%FRIENDS OF MARLBOROUGH SENIORS: $1k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$154k · 9 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
23

Total granted

$154k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+151%

Still filing today

89%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $38k · revenue +66%
  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +55%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • MF
    MPL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL MA DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • YO
    YMCA OF CENTRAL MA
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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
Fitchburg Historical Society

Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts

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2
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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3
Hadley Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA

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4
Holliston Historical Society
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5
Massachusetts Bankers Association Scholarship Foundation
Education
6
The Southborough Village Society Inc

This entity owns a historic house in southborough, ma. its mission is to maintain the house and make the house available for public use by the residents of southborough, ma.

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7
The Cambridge Homes
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8
Shrewsbury Historical Society

To promote, preserve and educate regarding Shrewsbury, Massachusetts history.

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9
Cohasset 250

250th Town of Cohasset, MA celebrations

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10
Harvard Historical Society

To collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community

Arts & Culture
11
Simsbury Free Library
Education
12
Bay State Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groton Hill Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farley Home and School Association 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%10%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr14%32%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
11%
1,568/14,785

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

19 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. 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCMPL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherMPL FOUNDATIONNORTH CENTRAL MA DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL MA DEVELOPMENT CORPYMCA OF CENTRAL MA — $10,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL MAIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientADDITION REFERRAL CENTER OF MARLBOROUGH — $10,000 · OtherADDITION REFERRAL CENTER OF MARLBOROUGHTHE YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS — $10,000 · OtherTHE YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTSTHE ADDICTION REFERRAL CENTER OF MARLBOROUGH — $10,000 · OtherTHE ADDICTION REFERRAL CENTER OF MARLBOROUGHBANZAI INC — $7,590 · OtherJANIS BRESNAHON RUN FOR EDUCATION — $6,000 · OtherHMEA — $6,000 · Other+14 more — $43,500 · Other+14 moreMARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 · EducationMARLBOROUGH PUBL…GOODNOW LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EducationQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $38,140 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…GROTON HILL MUSIC INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureGROTON HIL…Marlborough Public Schools Music Association — $6,400 · Arts & CultureMarlboroug…SUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureSUDBURY HI…UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC — $17,500 · PhilanthropyTHRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesFriends of Marlborough Seniors Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $9,999 · Housing & Shelter
Other$163,090Education$47,500Youth Development$38,140Arts & Culture$28,900Philanthropy$17,500Human Services$14,000Housing & Shelter$9,999

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $38,140 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGROTON HILL MUSIC INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $9,999 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMarlborough Public Schools Music Association — $6,400 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC — $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGOODNOW LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMARLBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Marlborough Seniors Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWORCESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Middlesex Savings Cha…Community Foundation …Marlborough Brigham F…Main Street Group Fou…The Sudbury FoundationRollstone Charitable …Avidia Charitable Fou…United Way of Central…Greater Worcester Com…Webster Five Foundati…Hometown Bank Communi…Cummings Foundation G…
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Marlborough Brigham Family Trust · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston 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 Marlborough Savings Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
  • North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sudbury Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report 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, FY20–25

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 Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marlborough Savings 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 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines