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Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NCM$5,000
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU - MAIN STREET MATTERS PROGRAM$5,000
PACH - PEPPERELL - AID TO COMMUNITY$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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

  • TY
    THE YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL MA DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • MF
    MPL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groton Hill Music Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCTHE YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $10,000 · OtherTHE YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTSIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH CENTRAL MA DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10,000 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL MA DEVELOPMENT CORPMPL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMPL FOUNDATIONADDITION REFERRAL CENTER OF MARLBOROUGH: $10,000 · OtherADDITION REFERRAL CENTER OF MARLBOROUGHYMCA OF CENTRAL MA: $10,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL MATHE 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…Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc: $2,500 · EducationGOODNOW LIBRARY 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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)

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 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.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home