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· Public charity
PROVISION MINISTRY INC
The mission of provision ministry, inc.
$46M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
veteranshomelessaccordingtraining
2019
spiritualclassesabortionbabyphysicalveteranshomeless
2020
institutionsccf ministriesfrancisrefugeadultschristianunderprivileged
2021
classesabortionbabyccf ministrieswelfarefrancishunger
2022
hungerccf ministrieschildrennecessitieschristiandignityadults
2023
hungerrecoverylow-incomefaithfrancisusingholistic
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
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: $46,484,573.
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Median grant
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States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
02The need
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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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Food Link Inc
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.
Food & Nutrition
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Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc
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…
Human Services
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Berkshire Food Project Inc
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 food resources
Food & Nutrition
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The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc
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…
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Greater Boston Food Bank Inc
The greater boston food bank's mission is to end hunger in eastern massachusetts.
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The Food Bank Support Corporation
To raise funds, support the functions of,& carry out the purposes of the food bank of western ma
Food & Nutrition
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East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc
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
Human Services
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Community Cooks Inc
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…
Food & Nutrition
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The Food Drive Inc
The corporation was organized in melrose, massachusetts to promote food access, food justice, and climate action. we partner with commercial and community sources to rescue wholesome food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it…
Food & Nutrition
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Worcester County Food Bank Inc
To engage,educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community through the collection and distribution of donated food and advocacy programs that support people in being more food secure and healthy.
Food & Nutrition
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West Warwick Assistance Agency
Buy food and collect donations of food and money to be 100% distributed to individuals and families in need.
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Westerly Area Rest Meals (Warm) Inc
The mission of the warm center is to provide a continuum of care and service to the homeless and needy by providing affordable housing and assuring supportive services, and to help the homeless and needy build self-esteem and move toward…
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Vision 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%2/75
the rest of the field
10%
3,492/35,645
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.
Arbella Insurance FoundationMA28× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Greater Lowell Community Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Community Foundation of Western · Boston Area Gleaners Inc · Center for Community Recovery
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.
04Through Plinth
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Provision Ministry Inc?
Find your warmest path to Provision Ministry Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines