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Sarah G McCarthy Memorial Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$130kHuman Services$93kEducation$79kCommunity Improvement$19kRecreation & Sports$15kEmployment$10kArts & Culture$6kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIZENS INN INC$15,000
YMCA OF METRO NORTH$5,000
HOPE AND COMFORT$5,000
UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION$5,000
MISSION OF DEEDS$5,000
SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC$5,000
PROJECT ADVENTURE INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $5k → 7%MISSION OF DEEDS: $5k → 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $5k → 14%HOPE AND COMFORT: $5k → 7%MISSION OF DEEDS: $5k → 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $5k → 14%MISSION OF DEEDS: $5k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $3k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $3k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $1k → 8%FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC: $5k → 10%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$353k · 11 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$353k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+27%

Still filing today

73%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% 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 ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CITIZENS INN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +53%
  • LF
    LEAP for Education Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +198%
  • SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +27%
  • FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +53%
  • NF
    NEWHALL FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 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
2
Housing Assistance Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter
3
Household Goods Inc

Household goods provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.

Human Services
4
Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Indiana Inc

Affiliated with habitat for humanity international. the mission is to provide decent shelter to needy families.

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5
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
6
Worcester Community Action Council Inc

The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services
7
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
8
House of Hope Housing Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Familyaid Boston Inc

Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.

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10
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
11
New England Center for Arts & Technology Inc

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.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITIZENS INN INC: $127,000 · Housing & ShelterCITIZENS INN INC+1 more: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterIndividual grant recipient: $33,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC: $28,500 · OtherHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE I…YMCA OF METRO NORTH: $24,500 · OtherYMCA OF METRO NORTHNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $13,500 · OtherNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGR…MUSIC AT EDENS EDGE: $5,925 · OtherPROJECT ADVENTURE INC: $5,000 · OtherUnited Nations Association: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $5,500 · OtherLEAP for Education Inc: $47,500 · EducationLEAP for Education IncSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $29,875 · EducationSCIENCE FROM SCIENTIST…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationMission of Deeds Inc: $22,125 · Human ServicesMission of Deeds …PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR CHIL…HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT …WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE …FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOR KIDS ONLY AFT…NEWHALL FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCULTUREHOUSE INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Housing & Shelter$130,000Other$120,925Education$79,375Human Services$62,125Food & Nutrition$5,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITIZENS INN INC: $127,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $47,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $29,875 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC: $28,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $22,125 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEWHALL FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCULTUREHOUSE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 4.9% 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…Cummings Foundation G…Salem Five Charitable…Essex County Communit…Boston Foundation IncPeople's United Commu…Rogers Family Foundat…Institution for Savin…Rockland Trust Charit…Rockland Trust - East…The Peter and Elizabe…McCarthy Family Found…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sarah G McCarthy Memorial Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarah G McCarthy Memorial Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to Sarah G McCarthy Memorial Fdn 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 21 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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