· Public charity
South Shore Elder Services Inc
Provides home care services, referrals, and advocacy to the elderly population of south shore massachusetts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $248,369 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,577,924 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,329,555 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $97,786 |
| FATHER BILL'S PLACE | $39,000 |
| MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $36,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL | $32,653 |
| SOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $19,999 |
| GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER | $9,500 |
| SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES | $8,292 |
| BRAINTREE COUNCIL ON AGING | $5,139 |
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 (FY17–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% 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 +84% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 INC9× · 2017–2025 · $346k · revenue +150%
- SSSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $332k · revenue +73%
- GBGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $321k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NCNOWELL COUNCIL ON AGINGone grant, 2024 · $37k
- WEWEYMOUTH ELDER SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $7k
- SSSOUTH SHORE VNA HOME AND HEALTH SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.
Facilitating the advancement of low and moderate income persons and other underserved residents in the south shore area of massachusetts and to assist such persons in finding and acquiring suitable housing by providing real estate…
We are committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate home care to the patients entrusted to us. We are also steadfast in our pledge to be a responsive and innovative advocate for the communities we serve, focusing on health…
Provides home care services, referrals, and advocacy to the elderly population of south shore massachusetts.
Homecare services and home health aide services.
To eliminate housing discrimination, and ensure fair, safe, and affordable housing opportunities for all.
North suffolk community services supports individuals and families across the lifespan in their pursuit of independence and stability by providing a comprehensive array of treatment and recovery services. our approach is to intervene as…
Semcoa's mission is to advocate for and provide support to individuals, families, and communities in the areas of substance use, mental illness, domestic violence, homelessness, and parenting.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
To link with communities to create conditions for inclusion and social change. the organization matches people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with caregivers who support people to remain with their family or live in a…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manet Community Health Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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
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 SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ENHANCE ASIAN COMMUNITY ON HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Each 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 · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 South Shore Elder Services 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.
- Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Enhance Asian Community On Health Inc — 19% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% 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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