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Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
107
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$53,600
Organizations funded a year
1 to 267
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $881k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving106$1.1M30%
FY20241$881k100%
FY202358$805k26%
FY202254$856k22%
FY202199$1.0M15%
FY2020267$2.7M75%
FY2019136$2.2Mn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.7MYouth Development$768kHousing & Shelter$697kEducation$667kPhilanthropy$525kHealth$518kArts & Culture$449kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 272 grantees
All grantees of Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc$246,04550%
Spoonfuls$228,00061%
Project Just Because Inc$142,50051%
Bethany Hill Place$119,02044%
Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc$115,78060%
Minuteman Senior Services Inc$115,76050%
Natick Service Council Inc$112,60064%
Metrowest Legal Services Inc$110,00042%
Out Metrowest Inc$105,25057%
Dignity Matters Inc$96,25055%
Discovery Museum Inc$96,20061%
Open Table Inc$86,70053%
Metrowest Nonprofit Network Inc$84,40054%
Family Promise Metrowest Inc$79,30052%
Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts Inc$75,76052%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell Inc$75,16042%
Caritas Communities Inc$75,00041%
Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc$74,42065%
Domestic Violence Services Network Inc$73,80045%
Framingham History Center Inc$73,50057%
Franklin Food Pantry Inc$71,68552%
Boston Area Gleaners Inc$69,90051%
Daniel's Table Inc$69,78045%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass /Metrowest Inc$68,04052%
Needham Community Council Inc$67,50043%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc$66,20041%
Samaritans Inc$65,00041%
Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc$65,00041%
Acton Community Supper and Food Pantry Inc$63,260411%
Sudbury Community Food Pantry$62,50045%
The Center for Arts in Natick Inc$61,90054%
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc$60,66031%
Spark Kindness Inc$60,500414%
Rifles to Rods Inc$60,500381%
One Family Inc$60,00031%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$60,00030%
More Than Words Inc$57,44020%
A Place To Turn Inc$54,78066%
Newton Community Service Centers Inc$54,40031%
Gaining Ground Inc$53,26054%
Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services$52,90038%
Hoops and Homework Inc$52,76026%
Circle of Hope Inc$52,76052%
The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc$52,18036%
Rise Above Foundation Inc$52,00044%
Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program Inc$51,25032%
Community Farms Outreach Inc$50,00032%
Hope and Comfort Inc$49,40031%
Families for Depression Awareness Inc$49,40035%
Westford Food Inc Co Westford Food Pantry$49,02048%
Hope worldwide Massachusetts Inc$47,50046%
Medway Village Food Pantry Inc$46,7604n/a
Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc$45,00011%
Thinkgive Inc$45,000325%
Westborough Food Pantry Inc$44,780418%
Holliston Pantry Shelfinc$43,26046%
Walpole Community Food Pantry Inc$43,26046%
Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans$43,00050%
Maynard Food Pantry Inc$42,9004n/a
Wellesley Food Pantry Inc$42,500411%
Medfield Food Cupboard$42,500418%
Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc$42,50044%
Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc$40,90050%
Horace Mann Educational Associates Inc$40,40020%
Employment Options Inc$40,00021%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$40,00020%
Springwell Inc$40,00020%
Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc$40,00020%
Center for Women & Enterprise Inc$40,00021%
United Parishes of Southborough Inc$37,5003n/a
The Nature Connection Inc$36,92049%
Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc$35,76031%
The Food Project Inc$35,50031%
Wildstar Equine Assisted Activities and Therapy In$35,300210%
Literations Corp$35,00021%
The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley Inc$34,40024%
Walker Inc$32,20030%
Household Goods Inc$31,00061%
Littleton Community Farm$30,760316%
Crossroads Continuum Inc$30,76030%
Ashland Education Foundation Inc$30,461230%
Friends of Council on Aging$30,0001n/a
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc$30,00020%
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Inc$30,00020%
Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc$30,00021%
Leadership Metrowest Inc$29,875217%
Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc$29,40021%
International Institute of New England Inc$27,50020%
Neighbor Brigade Inc$26,30027%
Unity Farm Sanctuary$26,00032%
Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc$25,76032%
The Natick Community Organic Farm Inc$25,50022%
Advocates Inc$25,00020%
Greater Framingham Community Church$25,0002n/a
Prospect Hill Community Foundation Inc$24,400263%
My Brother's Table Inc$22,50031%
The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc$21,66020%
Programs for People Inc$21,26032%
Groton Hill Music Inc$20,76010%
Baypath Elder Services Inc$20,76010%
Food Link Inc$20,50022%
Health and Social Services Consortium Inc$20,00010%
Hockomock Young Men's Christian Association Inc$20,00010%
Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc$20,00010%
Chesterbrook Community Foundation Inc$20,000130%
Holliston Historical Society$20,000123%
The Guild for Human Services Inc$20,00010%
Buddy Dog Humane Society Inc$19,44013%
Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc$19,02033%
Friends of 2life Communities Inc$18,03010%
Framingham State University Foundation Inc$17,99021%
Aurelias Garden$17,531223%
Warrior Within Yoga Project Inc$17,500154%
Cocotree Kids Inc$17,00024%
Metrowest Women's Fund Inc$17,00017%
Medway Friends of Elders Inc$15,760222%
Friends of the Franklin Library Inc$15,760267%
Concord Friends of the Aging Corp$15,760225%
Baypath Humane Society of Hopkinton Inc$15,64012%
Hopkinton Center for the Arts$15,16012%
Friends of the Bellingham Public Library Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Boxborough Library$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Morse Institute Library$15,0001n/a
The Friends of Callahan Senior Center I$15,00018%
Friends of the Ashland Council on Aging Inc$15,0001n/a
Senior Support Foundation$15,0001n/a
Friends of Franklin Elders Inc$15,000129%
Friends of the Bacon Free Library Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Walpole Public Library Inc$15,000153%
Friends of the Goodnow Library Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Wayland Library$15,0001n/a
Mab Community Services Inc$15,00010%
Friends of the Reuben Hoar Library Inc$15,000115%
The Friends of the Jv Fletcher Library Inc$15,00016%
Friends of the Needham Public Library$15,000112%
Girlstart$15,00011%
Cooperative Elder Services Inc$15,00011%
Friends of the Westborough Public Library Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Concord Free Public Library Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of Natick Senior Center Inc$15,000130%
Friends of Maynard Seniors$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Sherborn Library$15,000125%
Friends of the Wayland Council Onaging Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Littleton Council on Aging Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Southborough Council on Aging Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Acton Libraries$15,0001n/a
YWCA Central Massachusetts Inc$15,00010%
Friends of the Wellesley Free Libraries Inc$15,000120%
Friends of the Wellesley Council on Aging$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Center at the Heights Inc$15,000125%
Friends of Groton Elders Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Maynard Public Library Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Ashland Public Library Inc$15,000134%
Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc$15,00014%
Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc$15,00010%
Creative Hub Worcester$15,00011%
The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc$15,000156%
Friends of the Bedford Council on Aging Inc$15,0001n/a
Arts Wayland Foundation Inc$15,000120%
Girls on the Run Worcester County Inc$15,00013%
Friends of the Holliston Public Library$15,0001n/a
Plugged in Band Program Inc$15,00014%
Franklin Performing Arts Company Inc$14,76022%
Homeowner Options for Massachusetts Elderly Inc$14,40015%
Society for the Preservation of New Engl$14,40010%
Goodnow Library Foundation Inc$13,000112%
United Way of Acton-Boxborough Inc$12,69512%
Performing Arts Center of Metrowest Inc$12,00022%
2life Communities Inc$10,50020%
United Way of Tri County Inc$10,40020%
Hospitality Common Inc$10,000113%
Massachusetts Horticultural Society$10,00010%
John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation Inc$10,000122%
New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc$10,00011%
Rcs Learning Center Inc$10,00010%
Mustard Seed Catholic Worker Community Inc$10,00013%
Centro Las Americas Inc$10,00010%
Friendly House Inc$10,00010%
RIA Inc$10,00011%
Friends of Prescott Inc$8,00013%
Dress for Success Worcester Inc$7,50013%
League School for Autism Inc$7,50010%
Historical Natural History & Library Soc of Natick Inc$7,50014%
The Parmenter Foundation Inc$7,50011%
El Buen Samaritano Food Program$5,00011%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Worcester$5,00010%
Straight Ahead Ministries INC$5,00010%
Milford Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc$4,2802n/a
Soar Natick Inc$4,26064%
Sherborn Historical Society$4,00030%
Doli Atamian Campership Program Inc$4,00033%
Santa Foundation Inc$3,92024%
Home2homes$3,800176%
Sandy Pond School Association$3,4801n/a
Pepperell Aid From Community to Home Outreach Inc$3,04012%
Bedford Veterans Quarters Inc$3,04010%
Milford Humane Society Inc$3,04012%
Medway Community Farm Inc$2,52021%
Sherborn Widows and Orphans Benevolent Society C/O Judith Muldoon$2,500110%
Lazarus House Inc$2,00010%
22 Mohawks Corp$2,00012%
Brown Dog Coalition and Rescue Limited$1,97011%
Sudbury Historical Society Inc$1,5201n/a
Medway Foundation for Education$1,52017%
Maple Farm Sanctuary Inc$1,5201n/a
Metrowest Humane Society Inc$1,52011%
The Ecumenical Community Food Pantry of Norwood Inc$1,52010%
Emerson Health Care Foundation Inc$1,52010%
Charles River Association for Retarded Citizens Inc$1,26020%
The Michael Lisnow Respite Center Inc$1,16010%
Framingham Police Athletic League Inc$1,16017%
Golden Opportunities for Independence Inc$1,16010%
The Joan H Brack Charitable Foundation$1,00021%
Holliston Education Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Save a Dog Inc$8001n/a
Amazing Things Arts Center Inc$76010%
Friends of the Northborough Library Inc$76017%
Southborough Extended Day Program Inc$76010%
Walpole Scholarship Foundation Inc$76010%
Westford Historical Society Inc$7601n/a
Medway Turkey Trot$7601n/a
Waltham Land Tr Inc$76011%
Fishing With Warriors Inc$76012%
Medway Youth Baseball Inc$76011%
Franklin Youth Soccer Association Inc$76010%
Franklin Education Foundation$76014%
Stow Food Pantry Inc$76010%
Walpole Historical Society$76015%
The Fessenden School$76010%
Westborough Education Foundation$76011%
Neighborhood Supper$7601n/a
Brazilian American Center Inc$76010%
Natick Travel Basketball Inc$76010%
Boys Club Foundation of Waltham$76018%
Waltham Police Relief Association Inc$76011%
Westford Rotary Charitable Endowment Inc$7601n/a
Marlborough Public Library Foundation Inc$7601n/a
Metrowest Chamber Educational Foundation Inc$76019%
Barbieri PTO$76012%
Bellingham Lions Club$7601n/a
Westborough Athletic Boosters Association Inc$76012%
Medfield Animal Shelter Inc$76010%
Southborough Open Land Foundation Inc$76012%
Chelmsford Friends of the Library$7601n/a
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc$76010%
Littleton Conservation Trust$7601n/a
One Can Help Inc$76010%
Grafton Soccer Club$7601n/a
Live for Liv Inc$7601n/a
Ben Speaks Loader Than Words$76015%
Addiction Referral Center Inc$76010%
Concord Free Public Library Corporation$76010%
Acton Police Association$7601n/a
The Friends of the Hudson Senior Center Inc$76013%
Robert P Publicover Memorial Fund$7601n/a
Do Kind$7601n/a
Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc$76010%
Clyde F Brown Home and School Association Inc$76011%
Sound & Spirit Inc$76011%
Kids Connect Inc$76011%
Central Mass Revolution Youth Hockeyinc$7601n/a
Celebrate Holliston Inc$7601n/a
Guardian Angels Cat Rescue Inc$76010%
Communities for Restorative Justice Inc$50010%
The Decibels Foundation Inc$50010%
Perkins School for the Blind$50010%
Robbins House Inc$50011%
Weston Drama Workshop$40011%
Ashland Historical Society$40010%
Oars Inc$40010%
Bacon Free Library$4001n/a
Foxboro Discretionary FundInc$4001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 138 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: $246,045 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpoonfuls: $228,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetProject Just Because Inc: $142,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBethany Hill Place: $119,020 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetMetrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $115,780 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMinuteman Senior Services Inc: $115,760 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNatick Service Council Inc: $112,600 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetMetrowest Legal Services Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetOut Metrowest Inc: $105,250 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $96,250 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDiscovery Museum Inc: $96,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOpen Table Inc: $86,700 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetMetrowest Nonprofit Network Inc: $84,400 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetFamily Promise Metrowest Inc: $79,300 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHabitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts Inc: $75,760 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell Inc: $75,160 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCaritas Communities Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc: $74,420 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetDomestic Violence Services Network Inc: $73,800 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFramingham History Center Inc: $73,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetFranklin Food Pantry Inc: $71,685 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBoston Area Gleaners Inc: $69,900 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDaniel's Table Inc: $69,780 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass /Metrowest Inc: $68,040 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNeedham Community Council Inc: $67,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: $66,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSamaritans Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWaltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetActon Community Supper and Food Pantry Inc: $63,260 over 4y, 11% of budgetSudbury Community Food Pantry: $62,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetThe Center for Arts in Natick Inc: $61,900 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetJewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc: $60,660 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSpark Kindness Inc: $60,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetRifles to Rods Inc: $60,500 over 3y, 81% of budgetOne Family Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMore Than Words Inc: $57,440 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $54,780 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetNewton Community Service Centers Inc: $54,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGaining Ground Inc: $53,260 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMetrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services: $52,900 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetHoops and Homework Inc: $52,760 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCircle of Hope Inc: $52,760 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetThe Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc: $52,180 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetRise Above Foundation Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetLovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program Inc: $51,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Farms Outreach Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHope and Comfort Inc: $49,400 over 3y, 1.0% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

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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.

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About Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc reported 107 grants totaling $1,172,875 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 267 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc ($246k), Spoonfuls ($228k), Project Just Because Inc ($143k).
Does Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, The Sudbury Foundation, Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc 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 412 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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