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Pilgrim Bank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,500
Organizations funded a year
19 to 22
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Pilgrim Bank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$23k86%
FY202322$411k27%
FY202222$278k27%
FY202119$198k42%
FY202021$193kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$387kFood & Nutrition$190kEducation$121kArts & Culture$120kHealth$83kCrime & Legal$50kHousing & Shelter$35kEnvironment$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc$120,00044%
Friendship Home Inc$115,00041%
Wellspring Inc$100,00032%
Road to Responsibility Inc$95,00040%
Health Imperatives Inc$55,00040%
Carepacks$55,000419%
The Arc of the South Shore Inc$50,00030%
Partakers Inc$50,00016%
Consequence Magazine Inc$48,000341%
South Shore Art Center Inc$45,00043%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pilgrim Bank Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFriendship Home Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWellspring Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRoad to Responsibility Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Imperatives Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCarepacks: $55,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetThe Arc of the South Shore Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPartakers Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetConsequence Magazine Inc: $48,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetSouth Shore Art Center Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHull Lifesaving Museum Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetScituate Food Pantry Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAtlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetRolling Wave Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSouth Shore Support Services Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFather Bill's & Mainspring Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWeymouth Council for the Hungry Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIn Control Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNorwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Village Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDove Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Shore Elder Services Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupported Access to Independent Living Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBeyond The Bounds Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 FoundationMA30.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Pilgrim Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pilgrim Bank Foundation 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.

About Pilgrim Bank Foundation

How much does Pilgrim Bank Foundation give?
Pilgrim Bank Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $22,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Pilgrim Bank Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (11%).
Who are Pilgrim Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc ($120k), Friendship Home Inc ($115k), Wellspring Inc ($100k).
Does Pilgrim Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pilgrim Bank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pilgrim Bank Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Pilgrim Bank Foundation based?
Pilgrim Bank Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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