· Public charity
Brightbridge Credit Union
To serve our community and partner with our members to offer value added financial products, services, solutions and excellent member service.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMMAUS INC | $30,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMANS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| LAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPS | $15,000 |
| CU KIDS AT HEART | $14,700 |
| MASS FALLEN HEROS | $10,000 |
| CATIE'S CLOSET | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $7,500 |
| PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
EMMAUS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +42%- CKCU KIDS AT HEART INC5× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue -29%
- LPLAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPS4× · 2020–2024 · $50k
Funded once
- LLLAWRENCE LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $17k
- COCITY OF LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2020 · $17k
- GLGROUNDWORKS LAWRENCEone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
Public lending library
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Manage facilities for community access programming on the public educational & governmental access channels.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
To provide sophisticated, high quality, and passionate patient-centered care to the general public.
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
To assist local business in amesbury to improve not only their personal business environment but the business environment of amesbury as a whole.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
The mission of a Chamber of Commerce is to advocate for local businesses, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the community.
Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Entrepreneurship for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cu Kids At Heart Inc. 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 16 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 EMMAUS INC ↗
- Who funds CU KIDS AT HEART INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds Plymouth Public Library Corporation ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Brightbridge Credit Union 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.
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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.