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The Norwood Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k72 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD | $13,000 |
| Church of Christ Congregational (UCC) of Norfolk | $6,000 |
| FOXBORO DISCRETIONARY FUND | $6,000 |
| Plainville United Methodist Church | $6,000 |
| Circle of Hope Foundation | $5,200 |
| Norwood High School | $5,000 |
| Town of Norwood | $5,000 |
| Friends of St nick Foundation Inc | $2,600 |
| Lawrence P Cohen Memorial Scholarship Foundation Inc | $2,000 |
| The Michael Lisnow Respite Center Inc | $2,000 |
| FOXBOROUGH REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,600 |
| Norwood High School Pto | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| AMEGO INC | $1,500 |
| Hockomock Young Mens Christian Association Inc | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
59 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TETHE ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD INC5× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +405%
- MYMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +63%
- FOFRIENDS OF ST NICK FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- NSNORWOOD SHCOOLS FAMILY MEALS PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $30k
- TOTOWN OF NORWOOD STATUEone grant, 2018 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
To assist people affected by cancer, enhance their health and well-being through participation in professional programs of emotional support, education, and hope provided by or arranged through the corporation.
Support and encourage public education on nantucket, ma
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Hemophilia Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Christopher Catanese Childrens Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 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. 76 of the 197 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 THE ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foxboro Discretionary FundInc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST NICK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NORWOOD CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST PATRICK INC ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOXBOROUGH REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Christopher Catanese Childrens Foundation · Dedham Institution for Savings 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 Norwood 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.
- Youre With Us Inc — 90% of income from government
- Amegoinc — 76% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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