Skip to content

Massachusetts · Private foundation

Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
11
Organizations funded FY2020
64%
First-time grantees FY2020
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 15
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 64% of the organizations Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EducationHuman ServicesArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202011$50k64%
FY201915$94k67%
FY201814$84k71%
FY201712$74kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$71kYouth Development$56kHealth$40kArts & Culture$37kCommunity Improvement$35kPhilanthropy$28kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: $38,140 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGroton Hill Music Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central Massachusetts Development Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% 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 budgetQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGoodnow Library Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMarlborough Historical Society: $2,500 over 1y, 11% 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

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

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)

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.

Compare Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation with peer funders

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.

About Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation

How much does Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation give?
Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $49,640 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (22%), Youth Development (18%), Health (13%).
Who are Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Marlborough Public Library Foundation Inc ($42k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc ($38k), Groton Hill Music Inc ($20k).
Does Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, Marlborough Brigham Family Trust.
Where is Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation based?
Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 40 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Marlborough Savings’ filings →

More from the funding graph