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Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) at a glance

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Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC DBA FAMILY ACCESS OF NEWTON$25,155
JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON$10,000
NEW ART CENTER$10,000
NEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
SECOND STEP$10,000
NEWTON ATHLETES UNLIMITED$8,000
JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER BOSTON$8,000
DREAMFAR HIGH SCHOOL MARATHON$7,500
FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS$7,000
SUZUKI SCHOOL OF NEWTON$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE$5,000
WEST SUBURBAN YMCA$5,000
NEWTON THEATRE COMPANY$3,950
NEWTON NEIGHBORS INC$3,300
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $10k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $9k → 8%COMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $4k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $7k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $7k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME: $5k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME: $5k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME: $5k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $10k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME: $5k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $9k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $9k → 8%NEWTON AT HOME: $4k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $9k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $9k → 8%NEWTON WELLESLEY WESTON COMMITTTEE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING: $10k → 8%NEWTON WELLESLEY WESTON COMMITTTEE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING: $8k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $8k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $8k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $8k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $8k → 8%NEWTON WELLESLEY WESTON COMMITTTEE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING: $7k → 8%NEWTON WELLESLEY WESTON COMMITTTEE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING: $6k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $5k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $7k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $5k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $6k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $6k → 8%COMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $5k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $5k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $5k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $4k → 8%THE PRICE CENTER: $5k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $3k → 8%BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $5k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 26 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
7

Total granted

$1.0M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+18%

Still filing today

85%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NC
    NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $173k · revenue +12%
  • TS
    THE SECOND STEP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +0%
  • NC
    NEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • FA
    FAMILY ACCESS
    one grant, 2017 · $58k
  • United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -24%
  • BF
    BRIDGE FUND OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

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2
Newtown Community Development Corporation

Newtown helps people improve their financial well-being while strengthening communities through education, counseling, coaching and the development and stewardship of permenently affordable homes.

Housing & Shelter
3
Newton Communications Access Center Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
4
Newvue Affordable Housing Corporation

Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.

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5
Newton Park Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Newton School

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.

Education
7
New England Business Associates Inc

Support employment for disabled individuals.

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8
Newton Center Inc

The specific purpose of newton center is to provide affordable academic after school programs to students.

Human Services
9
New England Resident Service Coordinators Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Newton Schools Foundation Inc

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.

Education
11
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
12
Newton Teachers Association Inc

Labor union provides legal representation arbitration and coordination of services to members

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newton Community Service Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC: $172,804 · OtherNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INCTHE SECOND STEP INC: $101,000 · OtherTHE SECOND STEP INCNEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $85,500 · OtherNEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCJOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $63,271 · OtherJOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBFAMILY ACCESS: $57,912 · OtherFAMILY ACCESSSUZUKI SCHOOL OF NEWTON INC: $31,200 · Other+13 more: $113,560 · Other+13 moreFamilies for Depression Awareness Inc: $79,350 · Human ServicesFamilies for Depression Awar…PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAY TO POSSIBLE INCREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $54,000 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLEN…WEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $43,760 · Human ServicesWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CH…NEWTON AT HOME INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesNEWTON AT HOME INCBARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $51,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropyALL NEWTON MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $36,600 · Arts & CultureNEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureNEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC: $32,500 · Food & NutritionNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionDREAMFAR HIGH SCHOOL MARATHON: $26,500 · EducationCitizens for Affordable Housing in Newton Development Corp: $16,612 · Housing & ShelterMIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC: $3,960 · Housing & ShelterRIA Inc: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$625,247Human Services$285,110Philanthropy$66,000Arts & Culture$53,600Food & Nutrition$45,500Education$26,500Housing & Shelter$23,072

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 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
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.

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 Fou…Cambridge Savings Cha…The George and Louise…GivenGain Foundation …Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Hamilton Company …Cummings Foundation G…Rockland Trust Charit…Janey Fund Charitable…Community Foundation …Agnes M Lindsay Trust
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) 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 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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