· Private foundation
Stoneham Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth Zoological Corporation | $31,250 |
| Mystic Valley Elder Services | $25,150 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Billerica | $20,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham | $20,000 |
| Caritas Communities | $10,000 |
| Stoneham Youth Lacrosse Association | $5,000 |
| Friends of Stoneham Scouting | $3,000 |
| Augustinian High School of Reading MA (aka Austin Prep) | $1,500 |
| Billerica Holiday Festival | $1,000 |
| Northeast Arc | $1,000 |
| Empowergen Foundation | $700 |
| Bread of Life | $250 |
| Incompass Human Services | $250 |
| AgeSpan | $150 |
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 (FY17–26, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +85% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2026, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CZCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND9× · 2017–2026 · $211k · revenue +85%
- WHWINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $158k · revenue +107%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER BILLERICA INC7× · 2018–2026 · $142k · revenue +21%
Funded once
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +30%- HFHOUSING FAMILIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +154%
- JFJames F Farr Academy Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -32%
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.
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
Low income elderly housing.
The massachusetts senior action council, inc.'s (the organization) mission is to provide a collective voice for senior citizens to address quality-of-life concerns in various areas including health care, housing and security.
To provide services to individuals who were disabled due to or during their military service.
Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Lifepath, inc. is a private non-profit organization, designated aging services access point and an area agency on aging. its mission is to help elders live at home safely and independently for as long as possible by providing assistance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is James L Mckeown Boys and Girls Club of Woburn 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 75 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 COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER BILLERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BILLERICA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds James F Farr Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING OUR TROOPS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds STONEHAM YOUTH SOFTBALL ASSOCIATOIN INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF STONEHAM SCOUTING INC ↗
- Who funds THINK OF MICHAEL ↗
- Who funds LIAM NATION INC ↗
- Who funds BILLERICA HOLIDAY FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NUPATH INC ↗
- Who funds BILLERICA YANKEE DOODLE HOMECOMING 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: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Northern Bank & Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts 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 Stoneham 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.
- Incompass Human Services Inc — 94% of income from government
- Nupath Inc — 84% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Stoneham Historical Society Inc — 62% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Evergreen Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Billerica Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Vna Care Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Greater Boston Stage Company — 2% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- James F Farr Academy 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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