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Safety Insurance Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$368kEducation$298kHealth$228kPhilanthropy$217kHousing & Shelter$166kFood & Nutrition$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC$50,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC$25,000
INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$15,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$12,500
ROCA INC$10,000
CARE DIMENSIONS INC$10,000
VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC$10,000
CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC$10,000
SAFE ROADS ALLIANCE INC$10,000
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC$10,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI$10,000
CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC$10,000
HOMESTART INC$10,000
THOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $25k → 8%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10k → 8%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $5k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $5k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $5k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $5k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $3k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 20 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
10

Total granted

$1.3M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+23%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • CP
    CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue ×14 · 32% of their budget
  • IL
    INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON
    8× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +47%
  • VV
    VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +23%
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
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
2
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
3
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

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…

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4
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
5
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
6
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
7
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
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
11
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans; the most unlike its peers is Safe Roads Alliance Inc. 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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $105,000 · OtherCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INCINSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON: $102,500 · OtherINSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTONFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC: $70,000 · OtherFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $70,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI: $50,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATICare Dimensions Inc: $40,000 · OtherCare Dimensions IncNORTHEAST ARC INC: $30,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherHomeStart Inc: $26,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25,000 · OtherROCA INC: $50,000 · OtherROCA INCSafe Roads Alliance Inc: $30,000 · OtherMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $30,000 · Other+6 more: $52,000 · Other+6 moreCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $300,500 · Public BenefitCLEAR PATH FOR VETERAN…+1 more: $2,500 · Public BenefitBoston Foundation Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundat…United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $52,778 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of …Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Charita…GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,900 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropySAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $55,000 · Environment
Other$705,500Public Benefit$303,000Philanthropy$196,678Human Services$120,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Environment$55,000

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 budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $300,500 over 9y, 32% of budgetINSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON: $102,500 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $52,778 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Roads Alliance Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIn Control Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncSalem Five Charitable…Suffolk Cares Charita…Yawkey Foundation IIHighland Street Conne…Liberty Mutual Founda…Arbella Insurance Fou…Combined Jewish Phila…Norfolk & Dedham Foun…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Andover Companies…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Norfolk & Dedham Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Andover Companies Charitable Foundation

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 Safety Insurance Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Safety Insurance Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc: 62% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Insurance Library Association of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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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How do I get to Safety Insurance Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Safety Insurance Charitable 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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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