· Public charity
New Bedford Economic Development Council Inc
To cultivate and promote a transparent, credible, and business-friendly environment, the nbedc works collaboratively with local, state, and federal partners to support creativity, sustainable growth, and private sector investment benefiting the citizens of new bedford.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of NEW BEDFORD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $395,528 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $472,528 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAISAN TRUCKING | $20,000 |
| JALARM INC | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL C FOOD INC | $20,000 |
| GOLDEN GREEK RESTAURANT - STEM INC | $20,000 |
| DIPPER CAFE ASSOCIATES LLC | $20,000 |
| MORTON'S FORK CATERING | $20,000 |
| NO PROBLEMO | $20,000 |
| MATHIEU & MATHIEU | $20,000 |
| KNOTTY BY NATURE | $20,000 |
| VAZ CONSTRUCTION | $20,000 |
| UNITED CARE TRANSPORT INC | $20,000 |
| TIEQUWAN DUMAS ELECTRIC | $10,000 |
| TINY KNOT ELOPEMENTS | $10,000 |
| BEYOND PEST SERVICES CORP | $10,000 |
| CT LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE TRANSPORTATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 27 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k 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
- CECOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MASS7× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +613%
- DNDowntown New Bedford Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +735% · 88% of their budget
- NBNew Bedford Ocean Cluster Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- PMP&D MARKET INCone grant, 2024 · $40k
- TGTHE GLASS CONNECTORone grant, 2024 · $40k
- BCBristol Community College Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue -54%
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.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
Sharing the story of New Bedfords fishing community with the world, the Fishing Heritage Center documents and preserves the history and culture of the fishing industry, maintains a public archive, produces exhibits and presents a wide…
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
250th Town of Cohasset, MA celebrations
To promote and exhibit members work and to provide art education and access to the visual arts for the entire community.
Preserving and promoting Cape Verdean culture. The CVANB will foster continued appreciation for our history, deliver culturally competent programs and services that enrich all communities making a difference in the lives of the Cape…
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
Mission: See Schedule O.
Operates as the primary business and community information source for its members and the public; to provide networking opportunities for its members and serve as an advocate on behalf of its members at the local,state and federal…
The mission of a Chamber of Commerce is to advocate for local businesses, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Entrepreneurship for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cape Verdean Veterans Memorial Project. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 170 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 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MASS ↗
- Who funds Downtown New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Ocean Cluster Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE VERDEAN RECOGNITION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Bristol Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MA ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds MASS Design Art & Technology Institute Inc ↗
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: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · Island Foundation Inc · Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Barr 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 New Bedford Economic Development Council 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.
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Bristol County Chamber Foundation Inc — 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Mass Design Art & Technology Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- 3RD Eye Youth Empowerment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Downtown New Bedford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum 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.