· Private foundation
Sarah G McCarthy Memorial Fdn
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 $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITIZENS INN INC | $15,000 |
| HOPE AND COMFORT | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF METRO NORTH | $5,000 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS | $5,000 |
| PROJECT ADVENTURE INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
CITIZENS INN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +53%- LFLEAP for Education Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +198%
SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +100%
Funded once
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +27%
FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +53%- NFNEWHALL FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Household goods provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.
Affiliated with habitat for humanity international. the mission is to provide decent shelter to needy families.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
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 promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Committed to providing chronically unemployed adults with a pathway to stable, long-term employment in the food service industry through comprehensive technical & job readiness training with individualized support & employment services.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Nations Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 CITIZENS INN INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEWHALL FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CULTUREHOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds United Nations Association ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · McCarthy Family 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 Sarah G McCarthy Memorial Fdn 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- For Kids Only Afterschool Inc — 29% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- North Shore Community Action Programs Inc — 12% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort 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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