· Public charity
Provision Ministry Inc
The mission of provision ministry, inc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $39,294,312.
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.
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.
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.
Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…
Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.
Collecting and warehousing household goods for distribution and delivery to poor, needy or distressed individuals and families in need of financial assistance, in cooperation with and/or upon referral by charitable and other organizations…
Providing meals and food to the homeless and low-income individuals
To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity
Loaves & fishes' mission is to provide nutritious food, in an atmosphere of kindness and respect, to individuals in need who reside in ayer, devens, dunstable, groton, harvard, littleton, and shirley, massachusetts.
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
Provide assistance to those within the Billerica Community with food and personal care items to alleviate hunger and poverty.
To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access available food resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Sound Concerts Inc. 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 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
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: Analog Devices Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · 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.
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