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Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$835k
Granted FY2024still arriving
155
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k131 grants · $471k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $364k
$4,700
Median grant
6
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OIHM INCCREATIVITY FESTIVAL ACCT$45,800
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$40,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON CLERGY BENEFIT FUNDING TRUST$30,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW$27,000
BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER$20,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$15,000
RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE INC$12,500
CROSSROADS$12,000
GHPF INC$12,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST$10,000
TEAM IMPACT$10,000
LGBTQ SENIOR HOUSING INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
RIPPLES OF HOPE$10,000
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC$10,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $2k → 8%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $5k → 7%DOVER NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $2k → 7%WEST MEDFORD COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $5k → 8%FIDELITY HOUSE: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 7%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS INC: $5k → 8%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $5k → 16%SPRINGWELL: $2k → 8%HOPE & COMFORT INC: $3k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $3k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $4k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $750 → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC: $8k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $10k → 16%BACKPACKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $3k → 16%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 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
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
2
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
3
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
6
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
7
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

9
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

10
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

11
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
12
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities for People Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr14%22%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/111
the rest of the field
12%
1,360/11,060

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.

03the grantee network

105 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 147 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/105
Grantees still filing
46/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OIHM INCCREATIVITY FESTIVAL ACCT — $45,800 · OtherOIHM INCCREATIVITY FESTIVAL ACCTBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $40,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON CLERGY BENEFIT FUNDING TRUST — $30,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON CLERGY BENEFIT FUNDING TRUST+84 more — $388,750 · Other+84 moreMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUS…UNION CAPITAL INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesUNION CAP…QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY AS…HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF …MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VA…FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES …FIDELITY HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFIDELITY …ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $4,160 · Human ServicesASIAN AME…Project Just Because Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesBACKPACKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $2,500 · Human Services+5 more — $6,750 · Human Services+5 moreCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARB…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $3,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $17,750 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $12,500 · HealthCOMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE INC — $7,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,000 · HealthSHERRILL HOUSE INC — $5,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC — $3,000 · HealthJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · HealthITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $2,500 · HealthCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $13,000 · PhilanthropyRIPPLES OF HOPE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTEAM IMPACT INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBirthday Wishes Inc — $7,500 · PhilanthropyPROVISION MINISTRY INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS MORTGAGE BANKERS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Bullpen Project Inc — $2,000 · PhilanthropyCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER — $20,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureARTS COLLABORATIVE MEDFORD INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureDEDHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC INCORPORATED — $2,650 · Arts & CultureBOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureWELLESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY INVESTORS INC — $5,000 · EducationELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE NEEDHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationMEDFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE MIDAS COLLABORATIVE INC — $5,000 · EducationMONTROSE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · EducationBECCA SCHMILL FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EducationBETHANY HILL PLACE — $2,500 · Education+2 more — $1,500 · Education
Other$504,550Human Services$68,910Youth Development$68,000Health$55,750Philanthropy$52,500Arts & Culture$45,650Education$39,500

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 budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER — $20,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $17,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIPPLES OF HOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUT METROWEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLGBTQ SENIOR HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNION CAPITAL INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthday Wishes Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVISION MINISTRY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOTUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTORS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatick Education Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWellesley Education Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetARTS COLLABORATIVE MEDFORD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WELLESLEY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEEDHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROSLINDALE VILLAGE MAIN STREET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA83.9× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc

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 Needham Bank 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
202122232425
no gov · 400%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Lgbtq Senior Housing Inc100% of income from government
  • Fidelity House Inc91% of income from government
  • House of Possibilities Inc76% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc68% of income from government
  • Dove Inc60% of income from government
  • Riverside Community Care Inc58% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc53% of income from government
  • Communities for People Inc43% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc43% of income from government
  • Quincy Asian Resources Inc43% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc40% of income from government
  • Community Investors Inc39% of income from government
  • The Midas Collaborative Inc39% of income from government
  • Sherrill House Inc31% of income from government
  • Italian Home for Children Inc29% of income from government
  • Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc26% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc26% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc20% of income from government
  • Community Farms Outreach Inc20% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc19% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc18% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc15% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc15% of income from government
  • West Medford Community Center Inc12% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Roslindale Village Main Street Inc10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Out Metrowest Inc9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc5% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc4% of income from government
  • Bay Path University3% of income from government
  • Needham Community Council Inc2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Spark Kindness Inc1% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc1% of income from government
  • Boston Center for the Arts Inc1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc1% of income from government
  • Hyde Park Main Streets Inc1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Project Just Because Inc0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
40get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Needham Bank 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 147 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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