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Somerville Health Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Human Services$26kHousing & Shelter$24kArts & Culture$20kCommunity Improvement$19kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$11kYouth Development$5kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$552k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE$15,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%MYSTIC LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 8%BEAUTIFUL STUFF PROJECT: $4k → 8%BEAUTIFUL STUFF PROJECT: $3k → 8%RESPOND: $9k → 8%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 8%RESPOND: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY: $9k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY: $5k → 8%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION: $4k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$124k · 8 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$124k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+68%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +54%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE
    2× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +17%
  • RI
    RESPOND Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • ML
    MYSTIC LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +68%
  • YM
    YOUTHSTREAM MYSTIC LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE COMM GROWING CTR
    one grant, 2021 · $4k

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.

1
The Open Center for Children Inc

Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…

2
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
3
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
4
Voa Somerville Veterans Housing Inc

To provide housing and supportive services to the veterans of the united states military

5
Cambridge Affordable Housing Corp

The organization's mission is to provide management and supporting services for related organizations which own and operate low-income housing units for qualified individuals in the city of cambridge, ma.

Housing & Shelter
6
Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture
7
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

8
Somerset Children's Center Inc

To provide therapy and case management services for children with special needs utilizing developmentally appropriate therapputic services in a safe, nurturing environment.

Health
9
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
10
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
11
Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County Inc

To unite public, private and community partners to ensure safety, healing and justice for children and families impacted by violence, exploitation and abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Community Art Center Inc

To cultivate an engaged community of youth whose powerful artistic voices transform their lives, their neighborhoods and their worlds.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Beautiful Stuff Project 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC — $24,250 · Human ServicesSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INCNEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $18,061 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INCRESPOND Inc — $14,061 · Human ServicesRESPOND IncTHE BEAUTIFUL STUFF PROJECT INC — $7,380 · Human ServicesTHE BEAUTIFUL STUFF PROJECT INCMYSTIC LEARNING CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMYSTIC LEARNING CENTER INCCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE — $19,195 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLEPROJECT SOUP — $11,499 · OtherPROJECT SOUPIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTHSTREAM MYSTIC LEARNING CENTER — $5,000 · OtherYOUTHSTREAM MYSTIC LEARNING CENTERFRIENDS OF THE COMM GROWING CTR — $4,250 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE COMM GROWING CTRTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR T…BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC — $2,000 · Education
Human Services$68,752Other$49,944Arts & Culture$20,000Education$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC — $24,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE — $19,195 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $18,061 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetRESPOND Inc — $14,061 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BEAUTIFUL STUFF PROJECT INC — $7,380 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMYSTIC LEARNING CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Somerville Health 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 31%
  • Respond Inc80% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of Somerville49% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc31% of income from government
  • Mystic Learning Center Inc30% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Somerville Health Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Somerville Health 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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