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Pilgrim Bank Foundation at a glance

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Pilgrim Bank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY$4,500
SOUTH SHORE ELDER SERVICES$3,000
DOVE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
SOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATION$3,000
SAIL HOME$3,000
MY BROTHERS KEEPER$3,000
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 (FY20–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SAIL HOME: $3k → 7%ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE: $10k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $3k → 11%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $5k → 8%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL: $50k → 7%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL: $25k → 7%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 8%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL: $25k → 7%SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 8%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $20k → 7%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $50k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $25k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $20k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $20k → 8%SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES: $10k → 7%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY: $25k → 8%ROAD TO REPONSIBILITY: $25k → 8%SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES: $5k → 7%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY: $25k → 8%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY: $20k → 8%WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 8%WELLSPRING MULTISERVICE CENTER: $25k → 8%WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $25k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$905k · 22 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$905k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+9%

Still filing today

68%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +146%
  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOME INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +77%
  • WI
    WELLSPRING INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • PI
    PARTAKERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • RW
    ROLLING WAVE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • CC
    COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Southeastern Massachusetts Home Health Aides Inc

Homecare services and home health aide services.

Human Services
2
Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.

Human Services
3
Southeast Family Services Inc

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.

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4
Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore Inc

Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts

Housing & Shelter
5
Southeast Center for Independent Living Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Semcoa Inc Dba Southeast Massachusetts Council On Advocacy

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.

Unclassified
7
South Boston Neighborhood House Inc

To support family and neighborhood life in south boston.

Human Services
8
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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9
Housing Solutions for Southeastern Massachusetts

To promote, organize and manage programs that provide affordable housing in order to improve the quality of life in the southeastern massachusetts area.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Shared Living Collaborative Inc

To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities

Human Services
11
Nantucket Community Service Ii Inc

Provide low income elderly housing

Housing & Shelter
12
Leander House Inc

Assist people with disabilities

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 47 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INCFRIENDSHIP HOME INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME INCWELLSPRING INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING INCROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INCTHE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INCSCITUATE FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $26,000 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…COHASSET FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 · OtherCOHASSET FOOD PANTRYCAPE & ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH: $20,000 · OtherCAPE & ISLANDS VETERAN…COHASSET CENTER FOR COASTAL RESEARCH: $15,000 · OtherCOHASSET CENTER FOR CO…WEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $11,500 · OtherCOHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RE: $10,000 · OtherBUZZARDS BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherMERCY MEALS: $10,000 · OtherNorwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $10,000 · OtherFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $15,000 · OtherFATHER BILL'S & MAINSP…In Control Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $50,500 · Other+13 moreSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE A…HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureHULL LIFESAVI…ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC SYMP…Cohasset Historical Society: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCohasset Hist…SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE U…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAREPACKS: $55,000 · EducationCAREPACKSCONSEQUENCE MAGAZINE INC: $48,000 · EducationCONSEQUENC…HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $55,000 · HealthPARTAKERS INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalROLLING WAVE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$526,000Other$222,000Arts & Culture$131,000Education$103,000Health$55,000Crime & Legal$50,000Public Benefit$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$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
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.

  • 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 HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds CAREPACKS ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTAKERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSEQUENCE MAGAZINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SCITUATE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ROLLING WAVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds WEYMOUTH COUNCIL FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Cohasset Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE UNITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds In Control Family Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOVE INC ↗

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 Foundati…South Shore Bank Char…Rockland Trust Charit…Abington Bank Communi…Arbella Insurance Fou…Imagine IncBoston Foundation IncThe Taniguchi Deane F…Brooks Grace E TrustSouth Shore Playhouse…Sherbrooke Family Cha…Copeland Family Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pilgrim Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pilgrim Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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