· Private foundation
The Milford National Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILFORD SALVATION ARMY | $6,750 |
| PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC | $3,500 |
| ST BLAISE CHURCH | $3,000 |
| DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC | $3,000 |
| SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| MILFORD YOUTH CENTER | $2,120 |
| SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MEDWAY VILLAGE FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| PROJECT SMILE | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT | $1,000 |
| BLESSING BARN | $1,000 |
| CASA PROJECT | $1,000 |
| FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| MILFORD AREA HUMANITARIAN COALITION | $750 |
| SALVATION ARMY SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM | $600 |
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 (FY17–17, $8k) 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.
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.
Our mission is to respectfully serve our neighbors experiencing food insecurity by distributing healthy food, locally sourced whenever feasible.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
Provide hunger relief to individuals and families who are unable to afford food and receive inadequate government financial assistance
Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.
Food pantry to provide needy individuals with basic staples and food supplies.
Provide assistance to those within the Billerica Community with food and personal care items to alleviate hunger and poverty.
Provide hunger relief to the food insecure
The food pantry provided food products and related items to hundreds of individuals and families in the local area in 2021.
The newton food pantry works to alleviate food insecurity by providing free supplemental food and personal care products to community members in need, serving clients with dignity, compassion and respect.
To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.
To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.
To provide food assistance to Wakefield residents in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Milford Area Humanitarian Coalition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 Project Just Because Inc ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Franklin Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDWAY VILLAGE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds MILFORD AREA HUMANITARIAN COALITION 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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The Milford National 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.
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Franklin Food Pantry Inc — 3% of income from government
- Project Just Because 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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