· Private foundation
Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc
Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k50 grants · $194k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $391k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANCISCAN CHILDREN'S | $27,500 |
| OAK SQUARE YMCAYMCA OF GREATER BOSTON | $25,000 |
| BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $25,000 |
| DCF KIDS FUND | $20,000 |
| WEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP | $18,000 |
| WEST END HOUSE CAMP INC | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND | $15,000 |
| METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP | $15,000 |
| VERONICA B SMITH MULTI-SERVICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| CHAPA | $15,000 |
| FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
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.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Latino Stem Alliance. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 74 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 BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PINE MANOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTH NORFOLK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS ↗
- Who funds ENVISIONING ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER 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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return
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 Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc 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.
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Fishing Academy Inc — 14% of income from government
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 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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