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Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$252kHuman Services$147kRecreation & Sports$104kPhilanthropy$81kHealth$68kEducation$50kHousing & Shelter$31kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,496
Median grant
1
States reached
$50k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Struzz's Home Run$2,000
Arthur F Stearns Memorial Fund$1,800
Canton Youth Soccer Camp$1,496
Dean S Luce Elementary School$1,000
Kingston Youth Sports Organization$250
Bellingham Falcons Youth Football and Cheer$250
Waiting Animals Get Support$250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEFFREY COOMBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 8%OLD COLONY HOSPICE INC: $425 → 8%OLD COLONY HOSPICE INC: $250 → 8%INTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC: $10k → 16%VALUING OUR CHILDREN: $200 → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $5k → 16%HOCKOMOCK YMCA: $5k → 11%HOCKOMOCK YMCA: $500 → 11%HOCKOMOCK YMCA: $350 → 11%HOCKOMOCK YMCA: $250 → 11%OLD COLONY YMCA: $3k → 11%SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $5k → 16%SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $500 → 16%OLD COLONY YMCA: $500 → 7%KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER: $2k → 7%NORFOLK ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $250 → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $3k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
NV
SD
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
VA
DC
FL
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$468k · 67 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
242

Total granted

$468k
$461k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+44%

Still filing today

42%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +355%
  • CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +100%
  • TS
    THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASSISTANCE FOR VARIOUS NEEDY FAMILIES
    one grant, 2018 · $38k
  • DA
    DON AND MARILYN RODMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • RC
    RFK CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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2
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc

Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…

Youth Development
5
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
6
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
7
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc

The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.

Human Services
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
9
Northeast Arc Inc

Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.

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10
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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11
The Baseball Inc

The base ball, inc. d/b/a the base is a not-for-profit organization working to shift the national mindset and re-imagine pathways to success for urban youth. founded in roxbury, ma, the base operates in boston and on the westside of…

Recreation & Sports
12
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dothouse Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Christopher Catanese Childrens Foundation. 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

103 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. 103 of the 316 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/103
Grantees still filing
74/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSISTANCE FOR VARIOUS NEEDY FAMILIES: $37,816 · OtherASSISTANCE FOR VARIOUS NEEDY FAMILIESDON AND MARILYN RODMAN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherRFK CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS: $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $24,800 · OtherSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $20,000 · Other+160 more: $443,729 · Other+160 moreRodman For Kids Inc: $163,388 · PhilanthropyRodman For Kids IncTHE DON RODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $12,183 · PhilanthropyTHE DON RODMAN FAMILY FO…+7 more: $19,900 · Philanthropy+7 moreINTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $6,450 · Human ServicesSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $3,000 · Human ServicesKENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $675 · Human ServicesJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · HealthMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7,500 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $3,800 · HealthMARISA'S MISSION INC: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $28,300 · Youth DevelopmentRB FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC: $3,500 · EducationRAR-MA INC: $2,500 · EducationROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER INC: $2,000 · EducationCANTON HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · EducationFoxborough Basketball Association: $1,250 · EducationADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $600 · EducationTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $18,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$576,345Philanthropy$195,471Human Services$35,625Health$33,300Youth Development$28,300Education$20,350Arts & Culture$18,900

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $163,388 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $28,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $24,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $18,900 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $15,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHYANNIS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DON RODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $12,183 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Genesis Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $6,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRB FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE LIGHT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALMA CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL'S TABLE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTON ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LEADERSHIP INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARISA'S MISSION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTON HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DERENZO CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC: $1,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $1,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Summit Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOC FOR HOSPITAL MED EDU: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds HYANNIS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DON RODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Genesis Fund ↗
  • Who funds INTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DORCHESTER YOUTH SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗

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 Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…Rodman For Kids IncBoston Foundation IncYawkey Foundation IIArbella Insurance Fou…Rockland Trust - Blue…Cummings Foundation G…The New England Patri…United Way Of Massach…Liberty Mutual Founda…Mutual Bancorp Founda…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA39.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Rodman For Kids Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc

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 Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 420%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Norfolk Advocates for Children Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Valuing Our Children Inc: 93% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Fallon Community Health Plan Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Ada Forsyth Institute Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Interseminarian - Project Place Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Old Colony Hospice Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Dothouse Health Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Sibling Connections Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Sports Museum of New England Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Amazing Grace of Cape Cod Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
42get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust 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 316 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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