· Private foundation
MFS Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cardinal Cushing Centers | $15,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Kaydenz Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Wayside Food Programs | $1,000 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Worcester County Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church The Bridge | $1,000 |
| My Brother's Table | $1,000 |
| Preble Street Hope House | $1,000 |
| Augusta Food Bank | $1,000 |
| OHI Brewer Area Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Marshfield Council on Aging Boosters | $1,000 |
| Biddeford Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Wales Community Pantry | $1,000 |
| Martin Luther King Center | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 94% of MFS Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SSSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC3× · 2019–2021 · $51k · revenue +35%
- OCOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +49%
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC2× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SSSouth Shore Hospital FOUNone grant, 2023 · $11k
- NENEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +8%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +46%
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.
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Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Community servings' mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals and medically tailored groceries to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families.
Our mission is to improve the overall experience for each guest of the food bank, alleviate food insecurity, and to meet the ongoing food needs of the community. We need to accomplish this task by effectively managing the resources of the…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.
The mission of the food cupboard is to nourish and feed those in our community who are unable to do so on their own primarily due to limited financial resources.
The westbrook community food & resource center is an all volunteer non-profit organization providing free supplemental food to westbrook, maine residents on
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lorraine's Soup Kitchen and Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL INC ↗
- Who funds WALES COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHER'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Lorraine's Soup Kitchen and Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD COUNCIL ON AGING BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
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: The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Imagine Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust Dtd 08-09-2001 · Yawkey Foundation II · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Verizon 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 MFS Charitable 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.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Talking Information Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- South Shore Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank 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.
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