Human Services$36kEducation$29kHousing & Shelter$8kCrime & Legal$6kArts & Culture$4kHealth$4kCommunity Improvement$3kCivil Rights$950Employment$950Other$39k

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250

Median grant

States reached

$2k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY	$1,000
WAY FINDERS	$500
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION	$500
STCC FOUNDATION	$500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES	$500
TRANSHEALTH INC	$500
HOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC	$500
DOMUS INC	$500
VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC	$500
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC	$300
HEALING RACISM INSTITUTE OF THE	$250
OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC	$250
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL	$250
THE CALL OF MOLO	$250
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL	$250

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$100k · 48 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$100k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+15%

Still filing today

58%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

SM
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
WN
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY
6× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +22%
WF
WAY FINDERS INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +124%

Funded once

SO
SPRINGFIELD OPERATIONS ECS INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -67%
GI
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
one grant, 2017 · $3k
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +27%

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.

Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health

North Adams Regional Hospital

The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.

Health

Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health

Berkshire Health Systems Inc

The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.

Health

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health

Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health

Boston Architectural College

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

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Emerson Health System Inc

Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…

Health

Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health

Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Help Our Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/74

the rest of the field

11%

4,714/42,284

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 148 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/69

Grantees still filing

49/69

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$44,200Human Services$36,475Education$29,025Housing & Shelter$8,375Crime & Legal$5,750Arts & Culture$4,450Health$4,250

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA63.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Henrietta F Dexter Tuw-Dexter Ch · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region

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 Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

6rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines