· Private foundation
Pilgrim Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $108,490 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $50,000 |
| CHARITY GUILD | $50,000 |
| OLD COLONY YMCA | $40,000 |
| SCHOOLS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB | $9,000 |
| BSA MAYFLOWER COUNCIL | $3,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER PLYMOUTH COUN | $2,000 |
| L STREET MISSION | $1,000 |
| BROCKTON HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- OCOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $441k · revenue +49%
- TCTHE CHARITY GUILD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +37%
- BBBERWICK BOYS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BROCKTON - TREASURER'S OFFICEone grant, 2020 · $37k
- STSupport the Soupman Corpone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +209%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Strengthen and support individuals and families and to address the social service needs of our diverse and changing communities.
We support individuals, families, and the community with our continuum of care services with integrated, culturally competent behaviourial health, substance use recovery, and rehabilitative justice services.
North suffolk community services supports individuals and families across the lifespan in their pursuit of independence and stability by providing a comprehensive array of treatment and recovery services. our approach is to intervene as…
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
Founded in 1973, bristol aging & wellness, inc. is a private non-profit corporation, designated as an aging services access point and an area agency on aging. bristol serves as the entry point for elder services in southeastern…
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Colony Elder Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berwick Boys Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 31 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 OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds BERWICK BOYS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Old Colony Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds Support the Soupman Corp ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES 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 · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Demarco Charitable Foundation · Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 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.
- Old Colony Elder Services Inc — 59% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County in — 56% of income from government
- Family and Community Resources Inc — 54% of income from government
- Old Colony Hospice Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts 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.