How much did SALEM FIVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of SALEM FIVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

tewksbury habitathabitat buildbread roserose housingbillerica agingruthsred

2021

needhamdanvers youthtelevisionworksaccesspartners healthcaresaugus

2022

breast cancerbudgetfightingyouth baseballwomensworkschinese

2023

corporationlynnfieldcollaborativecompasseconomicrunningmiddleton

2025

rescuecarrollboosterssciencebuilding tradessouth shorepolice

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 337 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k323 grants · $860k
$10k–50k14 grants · $218k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants

ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY$42,300
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM$30,000
GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY$25,000
WENHAM MUSEUM$15,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS$12,100
LIFEBRIDGE NORTH SHORE$12,000
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY$11,150
LAZARUS HOUSE$10,000
SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
BILLERICA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC$10,000
DANVERS YMCA$10,000
VILLAGE FOOD HUB$10,000
PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC$10,000
MY BROTHER'S TABLE$10,000
HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE$9,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.2M · 305 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

305 repeat relationships — 154 still active in FY2025, 151 since wound down; 181 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

305

245

Total granted

$2.2M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+47%

Still filing today

72%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $502k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

EC
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
5× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +143%
THE SALEM PANTRY
5× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +991%
AC
ALL CARE HOSPICE
4× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +31%

Funded once

TC
Total Contributions Paid
one grant, 2024 · $974k
SJ
ST JOHNS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $10k
NS
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PRORAMS INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Boston Home Inc

To improve the lives of adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.

Health

South Boston Neighborhood House Inc

To support family and neighborhood life in south boston.

Human Services

Lowell Area Housing Inc

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Historic Boston Incorporated

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Meor of Boston Inc

Religion

Tenants Development Corporation

To provide housing to low and moderate income residents of boston, ma.

Housing & Shelter

Medical Care of Boston Management Corp

Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…

Health

Greater Boston Real Estate Board

Grants to charitable 501(c) organizations whose activities are conducted in the Greater Boston area.

Human Services

Greater Boston Council On

Philanthropy

UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)

To support, develop and coordinate an integrated health care delivery system that includes multiple health care facilities and providers. To receive in trust, from whatever source, and administer gifts and grants, whether restricted or for…

Health

Massachusetts League of Community Health

To promote population health equity for all through leadership and programs supporting community health centers and members in achieving their goals of accessible, quality, comprehensive, and community responsive health care.

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Neighborhood Housing Services of the

To provide neighborhood revitalization and affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wish Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%4/486

the rest of the field

1,953/20,967

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.

05the grantee network

434 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

186

Early backer (in before they grew)

420/434

Grantees still filing

333/434

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,661,182Human Services$407,060Arts & Culture$309,005Food & Nutrition$172,100Housing & Shelter$161,185Education$143,850Health$127,710

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.

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA150.8× affinity105 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & · People's United Community Foundation · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association

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 organisation SALEM FIVE CHARITABLE 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

28get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE DAVID K JOHNSON FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~32 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043567452 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE DAVID K JOHNSON FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 32 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SALEM FIVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

434 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

SALEM FIVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

434 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph