· Private foundation
Norfolk & Dedham Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $38,000 |
| DEDHAM SQUARE CIRCLE | $27,500 |
| DEDHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE | $25,000 |
| DEDHAM FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $10,000 |
| CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NE | $10,000 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS | $10,000 |
| RIPPLES OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| DEDHAM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE | $10,000 |
| NEXT STEP FUND INC | $10,000 |
| KELLY BRUSH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON | $10,000 |
| WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $7,500 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- DSDedham Square Circle7× · 2018–2024 · $158k · revenue +46% · 41% of their budget
- DFDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +56%
- CPCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC3× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +514%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
- TOTOWN OF DEDHAMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TFTHE FAIRBANKS HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Our mission is to provide high-quality support and advocacy for children, adults and families to develop and nurture safe, permanent relationships and maximize individual growth.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Little World Fka Petrova's Promise Incorporated. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 132 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 Dedham Square Circle ↗
- Who funds Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds In Control Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Dedham Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MOTHER BROOK ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Norfolk & Dedham 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.
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Next Step Fund Inc — 10% of income from government
- Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Linden Ponds Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Insurance Library Association of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.