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The Milford National Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Milford National Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2017
20
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2017 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CASA PROJECT$1,000
PROJECT SMILE$1,000
COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT$1,000
BLESSING BARN$1,000
FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY$1,000
MILFORD AREA HUMANITARIAN COALITION$750
TRINITY CHURCH COMMUNITY SUPPERS$600
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 8%PROJECT SMILE: $1k → 11%FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 7%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $4k → 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 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 Peoples Pantry

Our mission is to respectfully serve our neighbors experiencing food insecurity by distributing healthy food, locally sourced whenever feasible.

Food & Nutrition
2
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Hempfield Area Food Pantry Inc

Provide hunger relief to individuals and families who are unable to afford food and receive inadequate government financial assistance

Food & Nutrition
4
Holliston Pantry Shelfinc

Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.

Employment
5
Biddeford Food Pantry

Food pantry to provide needy individuals with basic staples and food supplies.

Human Services
6
Billerica Community Pantry Inc

Provide assistance to those within the Billerica Community with food and personal care items to alleviate hunger and poverty.

Food & Nutrition
7
Plymouth Community Food Pantry

Provide hunger relief to the food insecure

Food & Nutrition
8
Sudbury Community Food Pantry

The food pantry provided food products and related items to hundreds of individuals and families in the local area in 2021.

Food & Nutrition
9
Newton Food Pantry Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc

To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.

Human Services
11
Wellfleet Food Pantry

To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.

Education
12
Wakefield Food Pantry Inc

To provide food assistance to Wakefield residents in need.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILFORD SALVATION ARMY: $6,750 · OtherMILFORD SALVATION ARMYST BLAISE CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherST BLAISE CHURCHMILFORD YOUTH CENTER: $2,120 · OtherMILFORD YOUTH CENTERSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATIONBLESSING BARN: $1,000 · OtherBLESSING BARNTRINITY CHURCH COMMUNITY SUPPERS: $600 · OtherSALVATION ARMY SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM: $600 · Other+4 more: $2,000 · Other+4 moreProject Just Because Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesProject Just Because IncSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY …Franklin Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesFranklin Food Pantry IncPROJECT SMILE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT SMILE INCDAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyDAILY BREA…COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY…MEDWAY VILLAGE FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionMEDWAY VI…MILFORD AREA HUMANITARIAN COALITION INC: $750 · Food & NutritionMILFORD A…CASA PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$17,570Human Services$8,000Philanthropy$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,750Civil Rights$1,000

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 budgetProject Just Because Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SMILE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Rockland Trust Charit…Avidia Charitable Fou…Metrowest Health Foun…The Fred Harris Danie…Middlesex Savings Cha…Community Foundation …Arbella Insurance Fou…Analog Devices Founda…AbbVie FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation IncMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Milford National Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Milford National Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Milford National Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Milford National Charitable Foundation Inc 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 20 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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