· Private foundation
The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation’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 $10k150 grants · $462k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Boston Food Bank | $55,000 |
| Catholic Memorial School | $50,000 |
| St Finbarr Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Walpole Community Food Pantry | $10,000 |
| Our Lady of Grace at St Joe's Pastoral Collaborative | $10,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $10,000 |
| Brookline Multi Service Senior Center Corp | $10,000 |
| Interfaith Social Services | $8,000 |
| Little People's School Inc | $7,500 |
| Mission of Deeds | $6,000 |
| New England Center for Children | $5,500 |
| Partners in Health | $5,000 |
| Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa | $5,000 |
| St Sebastian's School | $5,000 |
| My Brother's Keeper Inc | $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, $449k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
183 repeat relationships — 137 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 19 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +1%
- BMBROOKLINE MULTI SERVICE CENTER CORP CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +74%
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -3%
- UWUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +112%
- FHFISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +213%
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
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.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 37 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) — 1% 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.
168 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. 168 of the 241 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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE MULTI SERVICE CENTER CORP CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE PEOPLE'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTWOOD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Flatley 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 The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation 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.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc — 63% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Crystal Springs Inc — 57% of income from government
- English at Large Inc — 49% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Walpole Community Food Pantry Inc — 37% of income from government
- Hale-Barnard Corporation — 36% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House 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
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Journey Forward Inc — 20% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Old Colony Hospice Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- Marblehead Counseling Center — 2% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Brookline Arts Center — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Presentation School Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cotting School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Little People's School 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.