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Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of SARAH GILLETT SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$1,610
Median grant
2
States reached
$697k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY ADULT DAY HEALTH$15,600
FRIENDS OF THE WESTFIELD ATHENAEUM$11,980
WESTFIELD COUNCIL ON AGING$10,590
FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS$6,400
WESTFIELD SOUP KITCHEN$4,640
RUSSELL COUNCIL OF AGING$3,880
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$3,250
OUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$3,070
HAWTHORNE ADULT DAY HEALTH$3,000
HUNTINGTON COUNCIL ON AGING$2,850
VALLEY RADIO READING SERVICES$2,850
YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC$2,710
SOUTHWICK COUNCIL ON AGING$1,700
DOMAS INC$1,610
BHN THE CARSON CENTER$1,500
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEARTSONG INC: $1k → 9%TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $680 → 12%YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC: $3k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC: $3k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC: $3k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC: $3k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$198k · 25 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
6

Total granted

$198k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+30%

Still filing today

32%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +4%
  • WA
    WESTFIELD ATHENAEUM
    3× · 2021–2023 · $13k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • GG
    GRANDMOTHERS' GARDEN
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • VI
    VIABILITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $770 · revenue +30%

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.

1
Westchester Institute for Human Development

The westchester institute for human development (wihd) creates better futures for people with disabilities, for vulnerable children, and for their families and caregivers. wihd accomplishes its mission through professional education,…

Health
2
Westhampton Free Library

The mission of the library is to serve to the community, cultivate knowledge, promote curiosity, and inspire lifelong learning.

Education
3
Westbrook Health Services Inc

Empowering people to achieve their greatest potential, westbrook health services inc. is the industry leader in providing comprehensive care to individuals with meantal health, developmental, substance abuse and addiction challenges

Health
4
Wmc-New York Inc

Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…

Health
5
Access Care Partners Inc

Westmass eldercare, inc. is an aging services access point and designated area agency on aging that provides services which include in-home support, informational services, nursing home advocacy, legal assistance, meal site transportation…

Human Services
6
Wellfleet Food Pantry

To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.

Education
7
West Dennis Free Public Library Association

Provide free library services to the public

8
Westport Library Association Inc

The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…

Education
9
West Hartford Fellowship Housing Inc

To provide housing and services to the elderly.

10
Westborough Historical Society

To study, educate, collect and preserve historical records and artifacts for the town of Westborough, MA

11
Baystate Wing Hospital Corporation

The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.

Health
12
The Westfield Foundation

The Organization is a not-for-profit established to support the public well-being and improve the quality of life in the community. It administers endowment and other funds established by individuals and organizations, invests them and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westfield Athenaeum and the most unlike its peers is Westfield Post 124 the American Legion Inc. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCY ADULT DAY HEALTH OF WESTFIELD — $23,900 · OtherMERCY ADULT DAY HEALTH OF WESTFIELDWESTFIELD COUNCIL ON AGING — $23,890 · OtherWESTFIELD COUNCIL ON AGINGWESTFIELD SOUP KITCHEN — $16,140 · OtherWESTFIELD SOUP KITCHENMERCY ADULT DAY HEALTH — $15,600 · OtherMERCY ADULT DAY HEALTHVALLEY RADIO READING SERVICES — $14,240 · OtherVALLEY RADIO READING SERVICESTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $14,090 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INCST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY — $12,690 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETYFRIENDS OF THE SOLDIERS HOME — $8,500 · Other+22 more — $47,450 · Other+22 moreYMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC — $14,630 · Human ServicesHEARTSONG INC — $1,340 · Human ServicesTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $680 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WESTFIELD ATHENAEUM INC — $11,980 · Arts & CultureAMELIA PARK CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $2,605 · Arts & CultureBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,300 · HealthDomus Incorporated — $4,784 · HealthBEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC — $2,810 · HealthWESTFIELD ATHENAEUM — $12,990 · EducationOUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $12,480 · Food & NutritionVIABILITY INC — $770 · Employment
Other$176,500Human Services$16,650Arts & Culture$14,585Health$13,894Education$12,990Food & Nutrition$12,480Employment$770

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC — $14,630 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $14,090 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTFIELD ATHENAEUM — $12,990 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $12,480 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDomus Incorporated — $4,784 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC — $2,810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMELIA PARK CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $2,605 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTSONG INC — $1,340 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVIABILITY INC — $770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $680 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
  • Who funds WESTFIELD ATHENAEUM
  • Who funds OUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTFIELD ATHENAEUM INC
  • Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Domus Incorporated
  • Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC
  • Who funds AMELIA PARK CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds WESTFIELD POST 124 THE AMERICAN LEGION INC
  • Who funds HEARTSONG INC
  • Who funds VIABILITY INC
  • Who funds THE TREEHOUSE 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.

Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation IncMA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Shurtleff Children's Svcs-Prin · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gillett Services for the Elderly 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 23%
  • Viability Inc81% of income from government
  • Behavioral Health Network Inc28% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc23% of income from government
  • Amelia Park Childrens Museum Inc7% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Westfield Athenaeum0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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