· Community foundation
Southcoast Community Foundation Inc
Uniting people, organizations, and resources to strengthen our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 92 grants below total $2,515,004 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,805,056 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,290,052 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY CANTON | $190,000 |
| OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $173,625 |
| PACE INC | $158,873 |
| UMASS DARTMOUTH FOUNDATION | $137,500 |
| NEW BEDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $134,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $109,330 |
| GLOBAL LEARNING CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL | $100,500 |
| SOUTHCOAST CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD | $70,550 |
| BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $55,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORDWAREHAM | $48,000 |
| WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $47,013 |
| YWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MA | $40,300 |
| COALITION FOR HEALTH EQUITY & EARLY DEVELOPMENT | $40,000 |
| LEADS MASSACHUSETTS | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +64% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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
- NLNORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +317%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +283%- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $807k · revenue +19%
Funded once
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -7%- BTBROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $126k · revenue +35%
- WEWestport Education Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $93k · revenue +140%
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.
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…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
The philosophy of independent living, maintains that individuals with disabilities have the right to choose services and make decisions for themselves. this belief is the foundation and guiding principle in all of the policies and…
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Acting in Community Endeavors Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Peters Episcopal Church. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
227 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. 227 of the 273 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 NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER FALL RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CASA DOS ACORES DA NOVA INGLATERRA INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Bristol Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COASTAL FOODSHED ↗
- Who funds Art Museum New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION 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: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Fall River Inc · Fall River Women's Union · Eastern Bank Foundation · Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc · Arbella Insurance 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 Southcoast Community 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.
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plymouth — 100% of income from government
- Spinner Publications Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Arc of Greater Plymouth Inc — 95% of income from government
- Molife Inc — 95% of income from government
- People Incorporated — 85% of income from government
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Amegoinc — 76% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Coastline Elderly Services Inc — 58% of income from government
- The Arc of Bristol County Inc — 55% of income from government
- Family and Community Resources Inc — 54% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- Farm and Community Collaborative Inc — 47% of income from government
- New Bedford Port Society — 41% of income from government
- Citizens for Citizens Inc — 41% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Brockton Day Nursery Inc — 36% of income from government
- Friends of Jack Foundation Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Child and Family Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Meeting Street Massachusetts Inc — 23% of income from government
- Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc — 23% of income from government
- Healthfirst Family Care Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Discovery Language Academy Inc — 15% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Bristol County Chamber Foundation Inc — 11% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Narrows Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gallery X Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- Plymouth Guild Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greater Fall River Symphony Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dream Out Loud Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- People Acting in Community Endeavors Inc — 3% of income from government
- Mass Design Art & Technology Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- 3RD Eye Youth Empowerment Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- New Bedford Economic Development Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Children's Museum of Greater Fall River Inc — 1% of income from government
- Your Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.