Massachusetts · 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.
- $334k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2025
- 104
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 112
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 93 | $335k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 104 | $384k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $435k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $376k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $203k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $242k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc | $161,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc | $101,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Friendship Home Inc | $91,500 | 6 | 1% |
| South Shore Young Men's Christian Association | $89,000 | 5 | 0% |
| South Shore Peer Recovery Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc | $57,650 | 6 | 7% |
| Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Quincy Asian Resources Inc | $46,650 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $42,610 | 4 | 0% |
| Road to Responsibility Inc | $32,333 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 149 recipients with no EIN on record ($561k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 115 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc reported 108 grants totaling $333,638 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 112 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc ($162k), Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc ($102k), Friendship Home Inc ($92k).
- Does South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc, Arbella Insurance Foundation.
- Where is South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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