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Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc at a glance

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Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$585k
Granted FY2017
74
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k50 grants · $194k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $391k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANCISCAN CHILDREN'S$27,500
SAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL$25,000
CATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOL$25,000
BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$25,000
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$25,000
OAK SQUARE YMCAYMCA OF GREATER BOSTON$25,000
DCF KIDS FUND$20,000
WEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP$18,000
CHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND$15,000
WEST END HOUSE CAMP INC$15,000
METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$15,000
CHAPA$15,000
VERONICA B SMITH MULTI-SERVICE CENTER$15,000
SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH - THE LITERACY CONNECTION$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $3k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $25k → 16%DCF KIDS FUND: $20k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%SPRINGWELL INC: $3k → 8%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES DBA ETHOS: $8k → 16%GREATER BOSTON REAL ESTATE BOARD FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $2k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $25k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $5k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 16%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 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
Neighborhealth Corporation

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,…

Health
2
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
3
Lifestream Inc

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.

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

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…

Health
6
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
7
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
8
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

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…

Education
9
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
10
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

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…

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11
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

—
12
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 74 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
43/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRANCISCAN CHILDREN'S: $27,500 · OtherFRANCISCAN CHILDREN'SOAK SQUARE YMCAYMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $25,000 · OtherOAK SQUARE YMCAYMCA OF GREATER BOSTONSAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherSAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLCATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOLCHAPA: $15,000 · OtherWEST END HOUSE CAMP INC: $15,000 · OtherVERONICA B SMITH MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $15,000 · Other+35 more: $173,000 · Other+35 moreBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBO…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND…FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY NURTURING CENTER …REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VI…SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS: $7,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR …JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $4,500 · Human Services+5 more: $12,000 · Human Services+5 moreWEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Fishing Academy Inc: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentPINE MANOR COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INC: $7,500 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationFAMILY EQUALITY: $5,000 · EducationRAR-MA INC: $1,500 · EducationMETROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterWEST ROXBURY FRIENDS OF ROSIE'S PLACE INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Civil RightsGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$345,500Human Services$124,000Youth Development$32,500Education$29,000Housing & Shelter$22,000Philanthropy$19,000Civil Rights$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC: $18,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWEST END HOUSE CAMP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE MANOR COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTH NORFOLK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVISIONING ACCESS INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVHL ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Boston Real Estate Board Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS WHO CARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Fishing Academy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNION CAPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust - Blue…Liberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…Combined Jewish Phila…Bushrod H Campbell & …Eastern Cambridge Fou…United Way Of Massach…Cambridge Savings Cha…Mass General Brigham …
Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation IncMA53.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rockland Trust-Peoples Federal Foundation Inc 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 74 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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