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The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$617k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
157
Grants FY2025
143
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
138 to 165
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
17
Total assets, FY2025
$18M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving156$616k12%
FY2024143$483k3%
FY2023163$458k4%
FY2022159$449k17%
FY2021165$441k27%
FY2020138$179kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$618kHuman Services$430kEducation$374kHousing & Shelter$314kReligion$289kFood & Nutrition$199kInternational$161kPublic Safety & Disaster$64kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$76,50060%
Brookline Multi Service Center Corp Center Corporation$44,75063%
Interfaith Social Services Inc$40,00060%
Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa$37,0006n/a
Little People's School Inc$32,50060%
Pine Street Inn Inc$32,00060%
Samaritan's Purse$30,00050%
Saint Francis House Inc$29,00060%
Dove Inc$29,00060%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$28,50060%
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All grantees of The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$76,50060%
Brookline Multi Service Center Corp Center Corporation$44,75063%
Interfaith Social Services Inc$40,00060%
Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa$37,0006n/a
Little People's School Inc$32,50060%
Pine Street Inn Inc$32,00060%
Samaritan's Purse$30,00050%
Saint Francis House Inc$29,00060%
Dove Inc$29,00060%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$28,50060%
The New England Center for Children Inc$28,00060%
St Matthews House Inc$27,00060%
St Sebastians School Inc$26,5006n/a
Caritas Communities Inc$26,00060%
Catholic Charities USA$26,0005n/a
Mission of Deeds Inc$25,25060%
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center$25,00050%
Brookline Food Pantry Inc$25,00050%
Westwood Food Pantry Inc$25,000514%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$25,00050%
Catholic Relief Services$25,0005n/a
The Ecumenical Community Food Pantry of Norwood Inc$25,00051%
Hope for Haiti Inc$25,00050%
Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust$25,00052%
My Brothers Keeper Inc$25,00050%
Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc$24,00060%
Hospitality Homes Inc$24,00061%
American Cancer Society Inc$22,50040%
Manet Community Health Center Inc$22,00060%
Riverside Community Care Inc$21,25060%
Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston Inc$21,00060%
St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc$20,00040%
Brotherhood of Hope Inc$19,7506n/a
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$19,50060%
Marian Manor Inc$19,50050%
St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc$19,50060%
Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans$18,50060%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$18,20060%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$18,00060%
Friends of Sherborn Council on Aging Inc$17,5005n/a
Compassionate Care ALS Inc$17,00060%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$16,50060%
School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc$16,00050%
Walpole Community Food Pantry Inc$15,00022%
Springwell Inc$15,00060%
Matthew C Sellitto Foundation Inc$15,000323%
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc$15,00030%
Rosie's Place Inc$15,00050%
Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc$14,50060%
Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc$14,50060%
Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc$13,50050%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$13,50050%
Roxbury Stone House Inc$13,50060%
Friends of Thai Daughters Inc$13,50060%
Plummer Youth Promise Inc$13,25060%
Crystal Springs Inc$13,25060%
On the Rise Inc$13,25060%
Blood Cancer United Inc$13,25060%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$13,00060%
Old Colony Hospice Inc$13,00060%
Cotting School Inc$13,00060%
Perkins School for the Blind$12,90060%
Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc$12,50060%
National Kidney Foundation Inc$12,50050%
American Heart Association Inc$12,50050%
English at Large Inc$12,00061%
Charles River Association for Retarded Citizens Inc$12,00060%
Catholic Schools Foundation Inc$11,75060%
House of Possibilities Inc$11,75060%
Baker Senior Center Naples Inc$11,50050%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$11,50060%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$11,50050%
Society of St Vincent de Paul$11,00030%
Tommy's Place Foundation Inc$11,00050%
Children's Hospital Corporation$11,00060%
United Service Organizations Inc$10,50060%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$10,50030%
Crudem Foundation Inc$10,50050%
Neurofibromatosis Inc Northeast$10,00060%
Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc$10,00040%
Coast Guard Foundation Inc$10,00040%
Khan Academy Inc$10,00040%
Xaverian Brothers High School$10,0006n/a
Presentation School Foundation Inc$10,00061%
Second Chances Inc$9,50061%
Best Buddies International Inc$9,50050%
Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc$9,50060%
Covenant House$9,50060%
Care Dimensions Inc$9,50050%
Scandinavian Charitable Society of Greater Boston Inc$9,00040%
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$9,00020%
Saint Columbkille Partnership School Brighton$8,7505n/a
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc$8,50050%
Empower Grieving Children Inc$8,50031%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$8,00060%
Mab Community Services Inc$8,00040%
Jett Foundation Inc$8,00060%
American Institute for Cancer Research$8,00060%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$8,00040%
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc$8,00040%
Payson Park Music Festival$7,7506n/a
Adult & Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey Inc$7,50030%
Cooley's Anemia Foundation$7,50040%
American Diabetes Association$7,50030%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$7,50050%
Barry L Price Rehabilitation Center Inc$7,00060%
Cured Nfp$7,00041%
Smile Train Inc$7,00060%
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation$6,50060%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$6,25060%
Operation Smile Inc$6,25060%
National Ovarian Cancer Coalition Inc$6,00030%
Sarcoma Foundation of America$6,00050%
Franciscan Hospital for Children$6,00030%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$6,00030%
Keepsmilin4abbie Foundation$6,00044%
Brookline Arts Center$5,75050%
St Yves School Foundation Corp$5,750532%
One Mission Inc$5,25040%
Tutoring Plus of Cambridge Inc$5,25050%
Knights of Columbus Charities$5,0001n/a
Jingled Elves Inc$5,00012%
United Way of Kentucky Inc$5,00011%
Freedom Waters Foundation Inc$5,00020%
Fisher House of Boston Inc$5,00011%
Walpole Scout Center Inc$5,0002n/a
Corpus Christi-Saint Bernard Parish$5,0001n/a
Bryant University$5,00010%
The Guild for Human Services Inc$5,00020%
Saint Joseph Preparatory High School$5,0003n/a
The Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Foundation$5,00061%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00020%
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur$5,0001n/a
Team Heart Inc$5,00040%
Centre Street Food Pantry Inc$5,0001n/a
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association$4,50042%
Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation Inc$4,00040%
Marblehead Counseling Center$3,75030%
Mission Local Inc$3,5003n/a
Samaritans Inc$3,00020%
Bike the US for Ms Inc$3,00020%
New Bedford Women's Center Inc$3,00020%
Hale-Barnard Corporation$2,75040%
Rodman For Kids Inc$2,50010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$2,50010%
The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech$2,50010%
Teen Challenge Inc$2,5001n/a
North Suburban Young Men's Christian Association$2,50010%
Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc$2,50010%
Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc$2,25020%
Young Women's Christian Association of Boston Inc$2,00020%
The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc$2,00020%
Thymic Carcinoma Center$2,00010%
Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Dream Big Inc$2,00020%
Feeding Dreams Inc$1,80010%
Breakthrough T1d$1,75020%
Nick Strong Foundation Inc$1,500116%
Haymakers for Hope Inc$1,50010%
Trustees of Boston University$1,50010%
Stride for Stride Foundation Inc$1,50012%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$1,25020%
Golf Fights Cancer Inc$1,00010%
Hydrocephalus Association$1,00010%
Demello School PTO$1,00011%
The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc$1,00010%
Pembroke Appalachia Service Project$1,00011%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,0001n/a
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Inc$1,00010%
Journey Forward Inc$1,0001n/a
Belmont Youth Baseball Inc$1,00011%
Mental Health Collaborative Inc$1,00010%
Hopkinton Music Association$1,00011%
Donorschooseorg$1,00010%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$75010%
Cops for Kids With Cancer Inc$75010%
Dedham Historical Society$75020%
Association of Small Foundations$75010%
Boston Junior Eagles Inc$50010%
Rostro de Cristo Inc$50010%
Birthday Wishes Inc$2501n/a
Bishop Fenwick High School Inc$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($571k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 162 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $76,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBrookline Multi Service Center Corp Center Corporation: $44,750 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetInterfaith Social Services Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLittle People's School Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis House Inc: $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDove Inc: $29,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe New England Center for Children Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCaritas Communities Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $25,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBrookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBrookline Food Pantry Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWestwood Food Pantry Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ecumenical Community Food Pantry of Norwood Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHope for Haiti Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $25,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFather Bill's & Mainspring Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetManet Community Health Center Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Community Care Inc: $21,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Greater Boston Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarian Manor Inc: $19,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $18,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSchool on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWalpole Community Food Pantry Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSpringwell Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew C Sellitto Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetKnights of Columbus Charities Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSomerville Homeless Coalition Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Massachusetts Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRoxbury Stone House Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Thai Daughters Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 162.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA72.3× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation

How much does The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation give?
The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation reported 157 grants totaling $617,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 138 and 165 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (16%), Education (14%).
Who are The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($77k), Brookline Multi Service Center Corp Center Corporation ($45k), Interfaith Social Services Inc ($40k).
Does The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Arbella Insurance Foundation, Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation based?
The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 241 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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