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Pilgrim Bank Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| DOVE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MY BROTHERS KEEPER | $3,000 |
| SAIL HOME | $3,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE ELDER SERVICES | $3,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $486k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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 +66% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +146%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME INC4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +77%
- WIWELLSPRING INC3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- PIPARTAKERS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
- RWROLLING WAVE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
- CCCOHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL REone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Homecare services and home health aide services.
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
The organization is dedicated to the provision of emergency family shelter and residential services, as well as supporting services to families in recovery from substance abuse.
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
The philosophy of independent living, maintains that individuals with disabilities have the right to choose services and make decisions for themselves. this belief is the foundation and guiding principle in all of the policies and…
Semcoa's mission is to advocate for and provide support to individuals, families, and communities in the areas of substance use, mental illness, domestic violence, homelessness, and parenting.
To support family and neighborhood life in south boston.
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
To promote, organize and manage programs that provide affordable housing in order to improve the quality of life in the southeastern massachusetts area.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
Provide low income elderly housing
Assist people with disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carepacks. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAREPACKS ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSEQUENCE MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLING WAVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds Cohasset Historical Society ↗
- Who funds In Control Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTED ACCESS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Imagine Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Taniguchi Deane Family Foundation · Brooks Grace E Trust · South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc · Sherbrooke Family Charitable Trust · Copeland Family 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 Pilgrim Bank Foundation 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.
- Road to Responsibility Inc — 92% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- South Shore Elder Services Inc — 49% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Carepacks — 18% of income from government
- Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc — 13% of income from government
- Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc — 8% of income from government
- South Shore Art Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Scituate Food Pantry Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm 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.
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