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The Cranberry Rose Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$26kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kYouth Development$8kCivil Rights$7kPhilanthropy$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$128k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAMILY PANTRY DAMIEN'S PLACE$3,000
YMCA SOUTHCOAST$2,500
THE WOMEN'S CENTER$1,500
WOMEN'S FUND SOUTHCOAST$1,500
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS$1,500
WARRIOR BONFIRE PROGRAM$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Community Connections Inc: $2k → 8%Community Connections Inc: $2k → 8%Community Connections Inc: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 8%Community Connections Inc: $2k → 8%Community Connections Inc: $2k → 8%Community Connections Inc: $1k → 8%The Family Pantry- Damien's Place: $4k → 8%The Family Pantry- Damien's Place: $3k → 8%THE FAMILY PANTRY DAMIEN'S PLACE: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$79k · 11 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$79k
$11k

Still filing today

55%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +69%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • NB
    NEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WC
    Wareham CORE Lopes Playground Rebui
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • GN
    GREATER N B WOMEN'S CTR
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • TW
    The Women's Center return check
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
2
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
3
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
4
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement
5
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts

The community foundation of western massachusetts seeks to enrich the quality of life of the people of our region by encouraging philanthropy, developing a permanent, flexible endowment, assessing and responding to emerging and changing…

Philanthropy
6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
7
Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition
8
Northshore Food Bank

Serving the northshore by providing access to basic needs.

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9
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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12
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Family Pantry- Damien's Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Warrior Bonfire Program: $11,000 · OtherWarrior Bonfire ProgramNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $9,500 · OtherNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC: $7,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INCWOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC: $6,500 · OtherWOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INCFriends of Marion Council on Aging: $5,500 · OtherFriends of Marion Council on AgingSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $4,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHWAREHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $4,000 · OtherWAREHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUBWareham CORE Lopes Playground Rebui: $2,500 · Other+5 more: $10,000 · Other+5 moreCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INCTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'…NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$67,500Human Services$21,500Philanthropy$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Southcoast Community Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Cranberry Rose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cranberry Rose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 76%
  • New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Community Connections Inc: 76% of income from government
  • The Family Pantry- Damien's Place: 36% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Cranberry Rose Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cranberry Rose Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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