· Private foundation
The Marshall Home Fund Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGWELL INC | $13,000 |
| PROJECT LITERACY | $8,500 |
| MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $7,500 |
| MASS ASSN FOR BLIND | $7,000 |
| WATERTOWN HEALTH DEPT | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,120 |
| WATERTOWN COUNCIL ON AGING | $5,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| WATERTOWN COUNCIL ON AGING | $5,000 |
| WATERTOWN FARMERS MARKET | $4,500 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| WATERTOWN CABLE ACCESS CORP | $737 |
| MARSHALL PLACE RESIDENTS | $275 |
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, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Marshall Home Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- SISPRINGWELL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +205%
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +49%
- MWMETRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC3× · 2017–2019 · $37k · revenue +637%
Funded once
- SMSANCTA MARIA'S WINDSOR HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WFWatertown Friend of Project Literacyone grant, 2023 · $7k
- DEDEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
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.
Riverbrook residence is composed of people dedicated to the continuation of the uniquely nurturing community of women with developmental disabilities by creating innovative and genuine opportunities for full and meaningful community…
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
The mission of carleton-willard at home is to bring the excellence and experience of carleton-willard village to seniors in the local communities by providing trustworthy and reliable services and programs that will enhance wellness,…
Chatham place at mary wade (dba) is an 84 unit assisted living and memory care facility which provides high quality services which seek to maximize residents dignity and vitality.
It is the mission of work,inc. to ensure that all individuals with disabilities have the ability to grow, the right to make choices, access to education, and the opportunity to participate in community life via meaningful work.
Worcester county developmental center is committed to empoweringadults with developmental and physical disabilities to be productive,responsible, and participating members of the community byidentifying, enhancing, and creating…
To support people with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities, including brain injuries, to become valued members of their communities, with opportunities for meaningful participation in areas of personal pursuit.
Provides residential and nursing care, wellness and therapy services through the operation of continuing care retirement community; and provides in-home care services to residents and individuals in the greater community.
The organization offers services to assist people with severe disabilities achieve, maintain, and improve upon an independent lifestyle.the approved mcil mission statement since january 26, 2018, has been and remains: removing barriers,…
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaverbrook Step Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Project Literacy Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 38 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 SPRINGWELL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PROJECT LITERACY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE DOROTHY AND CHARLES MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds METRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CASCAP INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTA MARIA'S WINDSOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVERBROOK STEP INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED THREADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Watertown Cable Access Corporation ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY 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: Watertown Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Marshall Home Fund 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.
- Beaverbrook Step Inc — 93% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% 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.