· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $37,119 |
| GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER | $19,133 |
| DENOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE & HEAL | $14,771 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC | $6,533 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
4 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. 4 of the 5 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: 9% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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