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· Private foundation
SOMERVILLE HEALTH FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$25k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Human Services$69kArts & Culture$5kEducation$2kOther$35k
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$652k
Total assets
Largest grants
- SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION$20,000
- CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY$5,000
02The need
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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% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$85k · 6 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +144% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
5
Total granted
$85k
$20k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+144%
+78%
Still filing today
67%
60%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 COALITION2× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +165%- NCNEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +105%
- RRESPOND2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- MLMYSTIC LEARNING CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +191%
- YMYOUTHSTREAM MYSTIC LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE COMM GROWING CTRone 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.
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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 community.
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Community Counseling of Bristol County
To develop and deliver compassionate, responsive and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the prevention, education, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery needs of those in our community.
Health
4
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
5
Worcester Community Action Council Inc
Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
Human Services
6
Massachusetts Education & Career
Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.
Education
7
Southeast Center for Independent
To provide training, information, and support to help individuals with disabilities living in southeast ma to achieve individual goals, experience personal growth and participate fully in community life.
Housing & Shelter
8
Community Music Center of Boston
Community music center of boston ("cmcb") transforms lives throughout greater boston by providing equitable access to excellent music education and arts experiences.
Arts & Culture
9
Somerset Children's Center Inc
To maximize the potential of each child with special needs, through a holistic approach, utilizing developmentally appropriate theraputic services in a safe nurturing environment.
Health
10
Somali Development Center Inc
To provide consistently excellent and accessible community services to all somalis and other african communities in boston
Community Improvement
11
Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc
The massachusetts service alliance, established in 1990, is a private, nonprofit organization that serves as the state commission on community service and volunteerism. our mission is to catalyze the innovation and growth of service and…
Environment
12
Artsboston Inc
Artsboston connects people to and through the arts. we activate audience building and engagement tools, professional development networks and resources, and arts research to foster the growth of an equitable and inclusive arts community in…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Center for the Arts At the Armory. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$68,752Other$34,944Arts & Culture$5,000Education$2,000
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.
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds RESPOND ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL STUFF PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT THE ARMORY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON ↗
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.
Cambridge Savings CharitableMA15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Cambridge Savings Charitable · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation · 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 organisation 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
’20’21’22’23’24
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Mystic Learning Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 473869970 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Somerville Health Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Somerville Health Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
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