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Pierce Katharine C Uw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$291k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$1.3MFood & Nutrition$104kHealth$65kArts & Culture$25kEducation$24kCivil Rights$20kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $172k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $119k
$5,100
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGESPAN INC$13,700
SPRINGWELL INC$13,500
MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC$13,400
TRI-VALLEY ELDER SERVICES$12,550
ACCESS CARE PARTNERS INC$12,050
OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC$12,000
SOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INC$11,500
DEUTSCHES ALTENHEIM INC$10,000
FAMILY HEALTH PROJECT$10,000
ASNCM - AGING SERVICES OF N CENTRAL MA$10,000
SENIORCARE INC$9,600
MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC$8,400
ELDER SERVICES OF WORCESTER AREA$8,050
ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC$7,500
COOPERATIVE ELDER SERVICES INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $793k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SENIORCARE INC: $19k → 10%LIFE PATH INC: $9k → 14%SENIORCARE INC: $10k → 10%LIFE PATH INC: $9k → 14%LIFE PATH INC: $9k → 14%SENIORCARE INC: $10k → 10%SENIORCARE INC: $10k → 10%DEUTSCHES ALTENHEIM INC: $10k → 16%SENIORCARE INC: $9k → 10%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $10k → 12%WESTMASS ELDERCARE INC: $13k → 17%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $12k → 8%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $10k → 12%WESTMASS ELDERCARE INC: $12k → 17%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $20k → 8%ACCESS CARE PARTNERS INC: $12k → 17%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $12k → 8%WESTMASS ELDERCARE INC: $10k → 17%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $10k → 8%AGESPAN INC: $14k → 10%WESTMASS ELDERCARE INC: $10k → 17%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $11k → 8%AGESPAN INC: $14k → 10%WESTMASS ELDERCARE INC: $10k → 17%AGESPAN INC: $14k → 10%AGING SERVICES OF N CNTL MASSACHUSETTS: $23k → 11%BEACON HILL VILLAGE: $15k → 16%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $22k → 8%AGING SERVICES OF N CNTL MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 11%BEACON HILL VILLAGE: $10k → 16%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $16k → 8%AGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS: $10k → 11%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $16k → 8%MONTACHUSETT HOME CARE CORP: $9k → 11%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $16k → 8%AGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS: $9k → 11%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES: $20k → 16%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $13k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $13k → 8%CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC: $13k → 16%CENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%CAMBRIDGE AT HOME INC: $9k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $14k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $14k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $13k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $13k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $11k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 48 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MV
    MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +70%
  • SI
    SPRINGWELL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +140%
  • OC
    OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • AI
    ADVOCATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +76%
  • RI
    RESPOND Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +65%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
North Shore Elder Services Inc

The mission of north shorb elder services is to serve the functional needs of older adults residing on the north shore of massachusetts and provide support, information, and service to them and their families.

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2
Southeastern Massachusetts Home Health Aides Inc

Homecare services and home health aide services.

Human Services
3
Eastern Area Agency on Aging

It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.

Human Services
4
Homehealth & Child Care Services Inc

Committed to the healthy development,education,childcare,respectful eldercare, and to provide support & empowerment of all families of southeastern massachusetts, cape cod and the islands

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5
Eastern Area Adult Services Inc

Assist older adults in responding to their changing lifestyles and maximizing their independence through a variety of programs and services.

Human Services
6
89 South Care Support Inc

The mission is to better serve the senior healthcare and service needs at our community. our services focus on exceptional care and services in the home or other settings where seniors may call home and at the residences of 89 south. our…

Housing & Shelter
7
Nantucket Community Service Inc

Provide low income elderly housing.

—
8
Senior Community Services Inc

To promote independent and meaningful living for older adults through direct services and programs in the home and community.

Human Services
9
Berkeley County Committee On Aging Inc

Berkeley senior services mission is to offer a network of services enabling seniors to remain independent, participating members of our community.

Human Services
10
Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern Massachusetts Inc

To provide comprehensive, high-quality home healthcare to the community to all who need services within our financial resources and through the generosity of the communities served by the vna.

Health
11
Saint Elizabeth At Home Corp D/B/a Saint Elizabeth Home Care

To operate a licensed home health agency, providing home care and elder care services to rhode island residents.

Health
12
Massachusetts Senior Action Council Inc

The massachusetts senior action council, inc.'s (the organization) mission is to provide a collective voice for senior citizens to address quality-of-life concerns in various areas including health care, housing and security.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Colony Elder Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
42/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $96,473 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INCSPRINGWELL INC: $75,391 · Human ServicesSPRINGWELL INCACCESS CARE PARTNERS INC: $67,718 · Human ServicesACCESS CARE PARTNERS INCSENIORCARE INC: $66,443 · Human ServicesSENIORCARE INCAGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $61,324 · Human ServicesAGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $54,437 · Human ServicesMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INCCENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC: $45,648 · Human ServicesCENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INCLIFEPATH INC: $41,940 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS: $41,780 · Human ServicesAGESPAN INC: $41,240 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $30,000 · Human Services+20 more: $210,166 · Human Services+20 moreOLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC: $72,491 · OtherOLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INCSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED: $70,965 · OtherSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES …GREATER SPRINGFIELD SENIOR SERVICES INC: $43,569 · OtherGREATER SPRINGFIELD SENIOR SERVICES …HIGHLAND VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $41,974 · OtherHIGHLAND VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INCGREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $36,402 · OtherGREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INCRIA INC: $28,000 · OtherELDER SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY I: $26,655 · OtherECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTE INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 · OtherHEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES CONSORTIUM INC: $18,264 · Other+20 more: $162,092 · Other+20 moreELDER SERVICES OF WORCESTER AREA INC: $55,827 · HealthELDER SERV…TRI-VALLEY INC: $55,370 · HealthTRI-VALLEY…FAMILY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $15,000 · HealthFAMILY HEA…WELLESLEY NEIGHBORS INC: $10,000 · HealthWELLESLEY …ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 · HealthADVOCATES …+2 more: $10,000 · Health+2 moreMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,500 · Food & NutritionSOUTH SHORE ELDER SERVICES INC: $10,162 · Food & NutritionPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $23,500 · EducationELLIE FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationURBANITY DANCE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$832,560Other$540,412Health$156,197Food & Nutrition$60,662Education$33,500Arts & Culture$25,000Community Improvement$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $96,473 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC: $75,391 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC: $72,491 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED: $70,965 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS CARE PARTNERS INC: $67,718 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORCARE INC: $66,443 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $61,324 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF WORCESTER AREA INC: $55,827 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-VALLEY INC: $55,370 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $54,437 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL BOSTON ELDER SERVICES INC: $45,648 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER SPRINGFIELD SENIOR SERVICES INC: $43,569 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $41,974 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEPATH INC: $41,940 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS: $41,780 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAGESPAN INC: $41,240 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $36,402 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetURBANITY DANCE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBEACON HILL VILLAGE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC: $24,530 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC (ESAC): $22,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES CONSORTIUM INC: $18,264 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS INC: $14,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetALIANZA DV SERVICES INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON SENIOR HOME CARE INC: $13,696 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE ELDER SERVICES INC: $10,162 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELLESLEY NEIGHBORS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESPOND Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $9,162 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDOVE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCooperative Elder Services Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOASTLINE ELDERLY SERVICES INC: $6,869 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRISTOL AGING & WELLNESS INC: $6,705 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AGING ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA62.1× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Meals on Wheels America · Point32health Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Ttee Uw of Charles F Bacon · Boston Evening Clinic Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pierce Katharine C Uw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pierce Katharine C Uw. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Highland Valley Elder Services Inc: 86% of income from government
  • Lifepath Inc: 85% of income from government
  • Alianza Dv Services Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Seniorcare Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Respond Inc: 80% of income from government
  • Minuteman Senior Services Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Tri-Valley Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Old Colony Elder Services Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Coastline Elderly Services Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Agespan Inc: 57% of income from government
  • South Shore Elder Services Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Central Boston Elder Services Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Boston Senior Home Care Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Cooperative Elder Services Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Beacon Hill Village Inc: 28% of income from government
  • South Shore Community Action Council Inc: 20% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • West Medford Community Center Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Franklin Food Pantry Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Action Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Urbanity Dance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
13rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Pierce Katharine C Uw 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.

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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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