· Private foundation
Salem Five Charitable Foundation 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k323 grants · $860k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $218k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,150 |
| MY BROTHER'S TABLE | $10,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BILLERICA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE FOOD HUB | $10,000 |
| SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE | $9,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $455k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
317 repeat relationships — 162 still active in FY2025, 155 since wound down; 172 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k 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
- GBGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +55%
- TSTHE STEPHEN PHILLIPS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC3× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +15%
SALEM PANTRY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- TCTotal Contributions Paidone grant, 2024 · $974k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $18k
- CMCommunity Mentoring Team Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -11%
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.
The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Assist people with disabilities
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bread & Roses Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Stephen Phillips Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc. 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.
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 29 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
478 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 478 of the 712 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE STEPHEN PHILLIPS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL CARE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHER'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds CENTERBOARD INC ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Arbella Insurance Foundation
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 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.
- Turning Point Inc and Affiliates — 97% of income from government
- Essex National Heritage Commission Inc — 87% of income from government
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Bridgewell Inc — 85% of income from government
- Nupath Inc — 84% of income from government
- L'Arche Boston North Inc — 82% of income from government
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- Women in Transition Inc — 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Opportunities for Inclusion Inc — 49% of income from government
- Chelsea Restoration — 44% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- Aspire Developmental Services Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridging Independent Living Together Inc — 34% of income from government
- For Kids Only Afterschool Inc — 29% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Child and Family Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Salem Sound 2000 Inc — 20% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 17% of income from government
- Lysoa Inc — 15% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- North Shore Community Action Programs Inc — 12% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Acord Inc — 10% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Fuller House of Stoneham Inc — 9% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Billerica Community Pantry Inc — 6% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
- All Care Hospice Inc — 5% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Needs Arts Programs Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Anna Jaques Hospital Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Urban Edge Housing Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Lowell Plan Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greater Boston Stage Company — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Bankers Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- Insurance Library Association of Boston — 0% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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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