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Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,610
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,600
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$697k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$86k37%
FY202416$32k13%
FY202321$43k29%
FY202218$41k17%
FY202120$47kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$89kHealth$61kFood & Nutrition$47kArts & Culture$42kHousing & Shelter$5kEducation$2kRecreation & Sports$2kAnimals$660

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westfield Soup Kitchen$16,1404n/a
YMCA of Greater Westfield Inc$14,63050%
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc$14,09040%
Westfield Athenaeum$12,99030%
Our Community Food Pantry Inc$12,48051%
Friends of the Westfield Athenaeum Inc$11,9801n/a
Baystate Health Foundation Inc$6,30020%
Domus Incorporated$4,78440%
Behavioral Health Network Inc$2,81020%
Amelia Park Childrens Museum Inc$2,60530%
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren$2,1004n/a
Westfield Post 124 the American Legion Inc$1,4701n/a
Heartsong Inc$1,34010%
Viability Inc$77010%
The Treehouse Foundation Inc$68010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

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

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.

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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.

About Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc

How much does Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc give?
Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc reported 27 grants totaling $86,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (25%), Food & Nutrition (19%).
Who are Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Westfield Soup Kitchen ($16k), YMCA of Greater Westfield Inc ($15k), The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc ($14k).
Does Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation.
Where is Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc based?
Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly Inc is based in MA.

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 41 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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