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Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,155
Organizations funded a year
13 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$131k17%
FY202420$127k25%
FY202315$124k20%
FY202215$135k0%
FY202115$132k20%
FY202013$141k15%
FY201914$117k14%
FY201814$86k36%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$543kYouth Development$158kHealth$122kHousing & Shelter$109kArts & Culture$61kFood & Nutrition$46kEducation$40kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($151k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNewton Community Service Centers Inc: $172,804 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe Second Step Inc: $101,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNewton Community Development Foundation Inc: $85,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFamilies for Depression Awareness Inc: $79,350 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetPathway to Possible Inc: $65,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetReach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: $54,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association of Greater Boston: $51,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWest Suburban Young Men's Christian Association: $43,760 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAll Newton Music School Inc: $36,600 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNewton Community Farm Inc: $32,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSuzuki School of Newton Inc: $31,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDreamfar High School Marathon: $26,500 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetNewton at Home Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAthletes Unlimited Newton Ma Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budget2nd Act Org Inc: $18,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNew Art Center in Newton Inc (Fka) Newton Arts Center Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCitizens for Affordable Housing in Newton Development Corp: $16,612 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Food Pantry Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetParents Helping Parents - the Roundtable of Support Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBarry L Price Rehabilitation Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe John M Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCharles River Association for Retarded Citizens Inc: $9,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities United Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNewton Theatre Company Inc: $7,800 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGirls on the Run Greater Boston: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMiddlesex Human Service Agency Inc: $3,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Neighbors Inc: $3,300 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRIA Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 29.

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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 Cambridge FoundationMA34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust · GivenGain Foundation USA · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Janey Fund Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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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About Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust)

How much does Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) give?
Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) reported 18 grants totaling $131,187 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Youth Development (14%), Health (11%).
Who are Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newton Community Service Centers Inc ($173k), The Second Step Inc ($101k), Newton Community Development Foundation Inc ($86k).
Does Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Cambridge Foundation, Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust.
Where is Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) based?
Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) 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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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