· Private foundation
Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust)
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 $10k13 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC DBA FAMILY ACCESS OF NEWTON | $25,155 |
| NEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SECOND STEP | $10,000 |
| JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON | $10,000 |
| NEW ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER BOSTON | $8,000 |
| NEWTON ATHLETES UNLIMITED | $8,000 |
| DREAMFAR HIGH SCHOOL MARATHON | $7,500 |
| FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS | $7,000 |
| PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE | $5,000 |
| WEST SUBURBAN YMCA | $5,000 |
| SUZUKI SCHOOL OF NEWTON | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEWTON THEATRE COMPANY | $3,950 |
| NEWTON NEIGHBORS INC | $3,300 |
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, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- NCNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $173k · revenue +12%
- TSTHE SECOND STEP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +0%
- NCNEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- FAFAMILY ACCESSone grant, 2017 · $58k
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Incone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -24%- TBTHE BARRY L PRICE REHAB CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
Newtown helps people improve their financial well-being while strengthening communities through education, counseling, coaching and the development and stewardship of permenently affordable homes.
Newton communications access center, inc. (newtv) is newton's emmy award-winning, state-of-the-art hd media center, specializing in television production, training, and content distribution. newtv's cable channels (community, education,…
Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.
The mission of the newton school is to provide education, training and preparation in a private school environment for students in kindergarten through grade eight.
Support employment for disabled individuals.
The specific purpose of newton center is to provide affordable academic after school programs to students.
Resident Service Coordinators are professionals who serve elders, youth and families in their housing communities. NERSC provides training & professional development, including on-line courses for Resident Service Coordinators and housing…
The advance excellence and equity in the newton public schools by funding and supporting promising initiatives, professional development, and programs that close gaps in achievement and opportunity.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Labor union provides legal representation arbitration and coordination of services to members
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newton Community Service Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dreamfar High School Marathon. 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 43 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 36 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 NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Families for Depression Awareness Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALL NEWTON MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SUZUKI SCHOOL OF NEWTON INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMFAR HIGH SCHOOL MARATHON ↗
- Who funds NEWTON AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES UNLIMITED NEWTON MA INC ↗
- Who funds 2ND ACT ORG INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens for Affordable Housing in Newton Development Corp ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS - THE ROUNDTABLE OF SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Newton Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Newton Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds RIA 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 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
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 Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) 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.
- Communities United Inc — 89% of income from government
- Pathway to Possible Inc — 84% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 17% of income from government
- Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
- Girls On the Run Greater Boston — 4% of income from government
- Newton at Home Inc — 3% of income from government
- Suzuki School of Newton Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Newton Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% 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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