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Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated

Somerville-cambridge elder services is a non-profit agency that provides information, services, and advocacy to help older adults live independently in the setting of their choice. Established in 1972 as part of a national movement toward providing community-based services and supports for older adults, our mission is focused on helping…

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$19,133
Largest grant, FY2025
$37,119
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealth
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 arriving4$78k0%
FY20235$82k0%
FY20225$66k20%
FY20214$66k0%
FY20204$61k0%
FY20194$78k0%
FY20184$60k50%
FY20172$63kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$349kHuman Services$173kHousing & Shelter$15kHealth$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Boston Legal Services Inc$332,09180%
Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center$69,41470%
City of Somerville$68,9897n/a
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc$42,80170%
De Novo Center for Justice and Healing$38,56431%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Boston Foundation IncMA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated

How much does Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated give?
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated reported 4 grants totaling $77,556 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (63%), Human Services (31%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
Who are Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Boston Legal Services Inc ($332k), Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center ($69k), City of Somerville ($69k).
Does Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated based?
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated 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 5 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 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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