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Sarah W Rollins Charitable Trust Dated at a glance

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Sarah W Rollins Charitable Trust Dated

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$355kCrime & Legal$168kEducation$134kEmployment$90kHuman Services$85kFood & Nutrition$30kRecreation & Sports$20kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Plummer Youth Promise$35,000
ROCA$35,000
Catie's Closet Inc$25,000
YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN$25,000
Breakthrough Greater Boston$20,000
MILTON FOOD PANTRY$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Catie's Closet Inc: $25k → 8%Plummer Youth Promise: $35k → 10%Catie's Closet Inc: $20k → 8%Catie's Closet Inc: $20k → 8%Catie's Closet Inc: $20k → 8%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$756k · 11 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$756k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+66%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • ROCA INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $168k · revenue +72%
  • SL
    SILVER LINING MENTORING INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +128%
  • Catie's Closet Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CK
    CYCLE KIDS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • SB
    SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +100%
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 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
2
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
3
Minds Matter of Boston Inc

Minds matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.

Youth Development
4
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc

The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.

Education
5
More Than Words Inc

Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.

—
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

—
8
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
9
Apex for Youth Inc

Apex for youth delivers possibilities to underserved asian and immigrant youth from low-income families in nyc. apex recruits working professionals to volunteer and become positive role models who inspire youth to expand their horizons and…

Community Improvement
10
The Upward Project

To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…

Education
11
Teenworks Inc

To empower teens to achieve excellence in college, career, and community.

Employment
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Year Up Inc; the most unlike its peers is Plummer Youth Promise 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

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 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCA INC: $167,500 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INCSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER LINING MENTORING INCYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INCSPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCYEAR UP INC: $90,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCYouth Guidance: $70,000 · EducationYouth GuidanceAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50,500 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUNDBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $40,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INCNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL IN…MILTON FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $13,000 · EducationALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationCatie's Closet Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesCatie's Closet…PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesPLUMMER YOUTH …MILTON FOOD PANTRY: $30,000 · OtherMILTON FOOD…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MEDFORD &: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GI…MILTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMILTON FOUN…LONGY: $10,000 · OtherLONGYZUMIX INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCYCLE KIDS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Youth Development$357,500Education$293,500Human Services$120,000Other$90,000Arts & Culture$40,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCA INC: $167,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $105,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Guidance: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $50,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZUMIX INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCYCLE KIDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMILTON FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Boston Foundation IncGeorge H & Jane a Mif…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…Cummings Foundation G…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sarah W Rollins Charitable Trust Dated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarah W Rollins Charitable Trust Dated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 20 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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