· Private foundation
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $236k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $883k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-SCHOLARSHIPS | $53,600 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST | $35,500 |
| NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| SPOONFULS | $25,000 |
| ACTON COMMUNITY SUPPER AND FOOD PANTRY INC | $25,000 |
| PROJECT JUST BECAUSE | $25,000 |
| FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY | $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 |
| MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| ARTS WAYLAND FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| DANIEL JAMES MCCARTHY MEMORIAL FUND INC | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC5× · 2020–2025 · $246k · revenue +83%
- SSPOONFULS6× · 2019–2025 · $228k · revenue +90%
- PJProject Just Because Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $143k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $881k
- OAOPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INCone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +0%
- FOFRIENDS OF COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +63%
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.
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.
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,…
To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.
Public lending library
Extend and support services of the Millis Public Library.
Operation of a free lending library servicing marstons mills, ma.
Provide free library services to the public
Provide funding for programs and services provided to the elderly in westport, massachusetts.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Support the Public Library of Westhampton MA
Support the Pelham Free Public LIbrary
How this is measured
256 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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