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Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
107
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $236k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $883k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-SCHOLARSHIPS$53,600
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST$35,500
NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL$30,000
FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY$25,000
ACTON COMMUNITY SUPPER AND FOOD PANTRY INC$25,000
SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$25,000
SPOONFULS$25,000
PROJECT JUST BECAUSE$25,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES NETWORK$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC$17,000
BETHANY HILL PLACE$16,000
JEFF'S PLACE$16,000
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS$15,000
THINKGIVE$15,000
FRESH START FURNITURE BANK$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY: $20k → 8%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%ONE FAMILY INC: $20k → 16%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $20k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $20k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $20k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $20k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $20k → 16%KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $20k → 7%KENNEDY DONOVAN CENTER: $20k → 7%METROWEST YMCA: $44k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $22k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $21k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $21k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $20k → 8%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $20k → 7%FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 7%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES: $20k → 7%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES: $20k → 7%FRANKLIN FOOD PANTY: $20k → 7%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $21k → 8%HOCKOMOCK YMCA: $20k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $20k → 7%THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $20k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $40k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $21k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $20k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $43k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $35k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $25k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $20k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $20k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $30k → 8%WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH: $20k → 8%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $20k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $102k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $95k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $35k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $35k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $21k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC: $21k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC: $20k → 8%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $41k → 8%BEDFORD COMMUNITY TABLEPANTRY: $20k → 8%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $20k → 8%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 135 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

135 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
243

Total granted

$6.3M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+25%

Still filing today

82%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SM
    SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $246k · revenue +83%
  • S
    SPOONFULS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $228k · revenue +90%
  • PJ
    Project Just Because Inc
    5× · 2019–2025 · $143k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $881k
  • OA
    OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +0%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +63%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Wellfleet Food Pantry

To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.

Education
3
The Millicent Library

Public lending library

Education
4
Friends of the Millis Library

Extend and support services of the Millis Public Library.

Education
5
Marstons Mills Public Library Inc

Operation of a free lending library servicing marstons mills, ma.

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6
West Dennis Free Public Library Association

Provide free library services to the public

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7
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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8
Friends of Westport Council On Aging Inc

Provide funding for programs and services provided to the elderly in westport, massachusetts.

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9
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
10
The Friends of the Westhampton Public Library Inc

Support the Public Library of Westhampton MA

Education
11
Friends of the Pelham Free Public Library Inc

Support the Pelham Free Public LIbrary

Education
12
Historic Boston Incorporated
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holliston Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports LeaguesFood Access & DistributionCommunity Media AccessInternational Development A…Child Support ServicesEducation & Systems ChangeHealthcare Systems and Prov…Early Childhood Care CentersHarvard University Student …Community Arts CentersMedical Research Funding Or…Fraternal Service LodgesPrivate Recreational ClubsLibrary and Senior Support …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr15%7%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr13%15%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/274
the rest of the field
12%
1,734/14,746

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

256 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. 256 of the 412 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
80
Early backer (in before they grew)
250/256
Grantees still filing
173/256
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $881,235 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+115 more — $3,809,915 · Other+115 moreSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $246,045 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTU…Project Just Because Inc — $142,500 · Human ServicesProject Just Because In…METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $115,780 · Human ServicesMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S C…MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $115,760 · Human ServicesMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVIC…Dignity Matters Inc — $96,250 · Human ServicesJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc — $74,420 · Human ServicesFranklin Food Pantry Inc — $71,685 · Human Services+33 more — $1,008,700 · Human Services+33 moreSPOONFULS — $228,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULSOPEN TABLE INC — $86,700 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE…BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $69,900 · Food & NutritionBOSTON ARE…DANIEL'S TABLE INC — $69,780 · Food & NutritionDANIEL'S T…SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $62,500 · Food & NutritionSUDBURY CO…COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY …WESTFORD FOOD INC CO WESTFORD FOOD PANTRY — $49,020 · Food & NutritionWESTFORD F…MEDWAY VILLAGE FOOD PANTRY INC — $46,760 · Food & NutritionMEDWAY VIL…WELLESLEY FOOD PANTRY INC — $42,500 · Food & NutritionThe Food Project Inc — $35,500 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $89,531 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $377,260 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $219,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $30,760 · PhilanthropyBETHANY HILL PLACE — $119,020 · EducationWALKER INC — $32,200 · EducationCROSSROADS CONTINUUM INC — $30,760 · EducationASHLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $30,461 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE MAYNARD PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $15,000 · EducationFriends of the Walpole Public Library Inc — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARIES INC — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE GOODNOW LIBRARY INC — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ASHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE WESTBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $15,000 · EducationThe Friends of the Southborough Library Inc — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ACTON LIBRARIES — $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC — $15,000 · EducationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $68,040 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $66,200 · Youth DevelopmentSPARK KINDNESS INC — $60,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC — $52,760 · Youth DevelopmentTHINKGIVE INC — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentLITERATIONS CORP — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN WORCESTER COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $79,300 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $75,160 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $43,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METROWEST- GREATER WORCESTER INC — $29,400 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,691,150Human Services$1,871,140Food & Nutrition$830,191Philanthropy$627,020Education$362,441Youth Development$342,500Housing & Shelter$301,860

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $377,260 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $246,045 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPOONFULS — $228,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $219,000 over 5y, 0.4% 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 budgetWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $65,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSAMARITANS INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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 budgetRIFLES TO RODS INC — $60,500 over 3y, 81% of budgetSPARK KINDNESS INC — $60,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% 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 budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Sudbury FoundationAvidia Charitable Fou…MutualOne Charitable …Metrowest Health Foun…Cummings Foundation G…Rockland Trust Charit…DCU for KidsEastern Bank Foundati…Cambridge Savings Cha…Greater Lowell Commun…Amelia Peabody Charit…
Community Foundation for MetroWest IncMA189.2× affinity101 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · DCU for Kids · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust

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 Middlesex Savings 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 990%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
  • Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
  • Programs for People Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services — 47% of income from government
  • The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Walpole Community Food Pantry Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Cooperative Elder Services Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Medway Community Farm Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Franklin Performing Arts Company Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
  • 22 Mohawks Corp — 10% of income from government
  • Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc — 8% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Medfield Food Cupboard — 6% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Nature Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Crossroads Continuum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
  • New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Center for Arts in Natick Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Franklin Food Pantry Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Spark Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sudbury Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Hopkinton Center for the Arts — 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rcs Learning Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Creative Hub Worcester — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
99get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
11rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 412 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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