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Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat at a glance

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Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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$57kEnvironment$28kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPSTREAM POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC$5,000
INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES$3,000
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS$2,000
MASSRECYCLE$1,000
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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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, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $5k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $2k → 11%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $5k → 8%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $5k → 8%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $5k → 8%INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%VINFEN CORP: $5k → 8%INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%VINFEN CORP: $2k → 8%INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%VINFEN CORP: $2k → 8%INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES: $2k → 8%VINFEN CORP: $2k → 8%INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES: $1k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 6 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$57k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HG
    HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +15%
  • IH
    INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +42%
  • VINFEN CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • U
    UPSTREAM
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • FH
    FIDELITY HOUSE CRC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +59%
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
Goodwill Industries of the Berkshires and Southern Vermont Inc

The Organization's mission is to build pathways that help individuals pursue their goals through employment, career development, and community support programs.

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2
Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc

Collecting and warehousing household goods for distribution and delivery to poor, needy or distressed individuals and families in need of financial assistance, in cooperation with and/or upon referral by charitable and other organizations…

Human Services
3
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
4
Spoonfuls

Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Climable Inc

To make climate science and clean energy understandable and actionable for everyone. climable does this by organizing community-based clean energy accessibility programs, developing materials, teaching climate programming, and facilitating…

Environment
6
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
7
Green Cambridge Inc

Green Cambridge strives to create a more sustainable city protect the environment and educate youth and adults about the importance of environmental issue.

Environment
8
Emerge Enterprises Inc

Emerge enterprises, inc. operates sustainable social enterprises that empower people facing employment barriers to re-enter the workforce and achieve life-long success within their communities.

Employment
9
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
10
New Hampshire Recycles

Enables both small rural and large urban communities to manage their own recycling programs.

Environment
11
Second Chances Inc

Second Chances puts donated clothing to work for our community, diverting clothing, shoes, and accessories from local landfills while helping our neighbors in need take their first steps toward brighter futures.

Human Services
12
Leander House Inc

Assist people with disabilities

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Household Goods Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ashland Farmers Market. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOUSEHOLD GOODS INCINCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesINCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES INCVINFEN CORPORATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesVINFEN CORPORATIONFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INCHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesUpstream Policy Institute Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentUpstream Policy Institute IncMASS RECYCLE INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentMASS RECYCLE INC+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentUPSTREAM: $1,000 · OtherFIDELITY HOUSE CRC: $1,000 · OtherSTOW CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $100 · OtherMISSION EARTH: $100 · OtherBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $50 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$55,500Environment$27,500Other$2,200Food & Nutrition$2,050

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUpstream Policy Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVINFEN CORPORATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASS RECYCLE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOW CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND FARMERS MARKET: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Middlesex Savings Cha…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for MetroWest IncMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Incompass Human Services Inc: 94% of income from government
  • Vinfen Corporation: 83% of income from government
  • House of Possibilities Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Ashland Farmers Market: 18% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Center for Ecotechnology Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat?

Find your warmest path to Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat 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 15 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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