· Private foundation
Salem Community Benefit Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Charities New Hampshire (dba NH Food Bank) | $25,000 |
| Lazarus House Inc | $10,000 |
| Bread and Roses | $7,500 |
| St Joseph Melkite Catholic Church | $5,000 |
| Merrimack Valley Dream Center | $5,000 |
| Si Se Puede Inc | $2,500 |
| Friends of NH Drug Courts | $1,000 |
| Merrimack Valley Immigrant & Education Center | $1,000 |
| Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 67% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
LAZARUS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +14%
BREAD & ROSES INC5× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +324%- MVMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- DFDERRY FRIENDSHIP CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +35%
- NENORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +18%
LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Daycare services
Resident Service Coordinators are professionals who serve elders, youth and families in their housing communities. NERSC provides training & professional development, including on-line courses for Resident Service Coordinators and housing…
Assist people with disabilities
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
To promote responsible and sustainable home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income earners by producing comprehensive training and counseling, as well as promoting the use of special mortgage products and down payment…
We exist to share the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as provide shelter, food, and clothing to the poor and needy in obedience to Him.
Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.
ARCNH community recovery center is a Peer-to-Peer recovery coaching program that is designed to provide those on the path to recovery with individualized care and support from those with personal experiences with SUDS
The Well's mission is to deliver real solutions in behavioral health through compassion, innovation, and collaboration. By building an inclusive community, we offer comprehensive treatment and resources to empower individuals of diverse…
The mission of our place is to provide residential options, services and support designed to meet the needs of adults with developmental disabilities. we are dedicated to fostering growth and independence through vocational, social, and…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lazarus House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salem Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 26 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 LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UPPER ROOM A FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MERRIMAC HEIGHTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DERRY FRIENDSHIP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY IMMIGRANT & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN OLD FOLKS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM FAMILY RESOURCES SUCCESS BY 6 ↗
- Who funds Salem Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Si Se Puede Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NH DRUG COURTS ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · The Saab Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Josephine G Russell Trust · Rogers Family Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Pentucket Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Salem Community Benefit 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.
- German Old Folks Home Inc — 47% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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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