· Private foundation
South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of SOUTH SHORE BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k100 grants · $210k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING | $50,000 |
| ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY | $14,833 |
| CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS | $10,000 |
| RODMAN FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE INC | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $10,000 |
| CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS | $10,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE YMCA | $10,000 |
| QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC | $9,600 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $8,670 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $6,470 |
| NVNA AND HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES | $5,000 |
| JETT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC4× · 2021–2025 · $162k · revenue +31%
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +35%- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME INC6× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- W4WEYMOUTH 400 INCone grant, 2022 · $30k
- MCMAYFLOWER COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
- GGROWone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to make emotional well-being essential to overall health and building a supportive community for all, through effective, integrated care that is tailored to the way those we serve live. Aspire Health Alliance is helping to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tiny Transplant Titans Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
122 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 296 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds South Shore Peer Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS INC ↗
- Who funds WEYMOUTH 400 INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMPANY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GROW ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE STARS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds HINGHAM MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Imagine Inc · Copeland Family Foundation Inc · The Flatley Foundation · The Harborone Foundation · North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Harold Brooks Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc
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 South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Captain Forbes House Museum — 100% of income from government
- Grow Associates Inc — 97% of income from government
- Road to Responsibility Inc — 92% of income from government
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- Bay State Community Services Inc — 76% of income from government
- Work Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- Talking Information Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- South Shore Peer Recovery Inc — 71% of income from government
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- One Life at a Time Inc — 66% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County in — 56% of income from government
- Family and Community Resources Inc — 54% of income from government
- South Shore Stars Inc — 54% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Maddies Promise Inc — 15% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
- Old Colony Hospice Inc — 13% of income from government
- Brockton Hospital Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- Neponset River Watershed Association — 8% of income from government
- Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- South Shore Childrens Chorus Corp — 6% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bridgewater State University Foundation — 2% of income from government
- South Shore Art Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Museum in Easton Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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