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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.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
73
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$141kPublic Benefit$89kHuman Services$71kRecreation & Sports$57kYouth Development$44kEducation$37kHealth$31kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k72 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD$13,000
FOXBORO DISCRETIONARY FUND$6,000
Plainville United Methodist Church$6,000
Church of Christ Congregational (UCC) of Norfolk$6,000
Circle of Hope Foundation$5,200
Town of Norwood$5,000
Norwood High School$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
Hockomock Young Mens Christian Association Inc$1,500
BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
AMEGO INC$1,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Youre With US Inc: $500 → 10%DNA DOE PROJECT: $150 → 9%Citykids Foundation Inc: $500 → 17%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $500 → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $10k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $5k → 8%HEBRON FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 11%METROWEST YMCA: $5k → 8%HEBRON FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 11%METROWEST YMCA: $5k → 8%METRO WEST YMCA: $1k → 8%HEBRON FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 11%Hockomock Young Mens Christian Association Inc: $2k → 7%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $300 → 16%The Michael Lisnow Respite Center Inc: $2k → 8%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $500 → 16%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $100 → 11%Norfolk Parent Teacher Association: $250 → 7%Norfolk Parent Teacher Association: $200 → 7%Circle of Hope Foundation: $5k → 7%Circle of Hope Foundation: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
AZ
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$410k · 59 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
107

Total granted

$410k
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+26%

Still filing today

46%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TE
    THE ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +405%
  • MY
    METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +63%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ST NICK FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORWOOD SHCOOLS FAMILY MEALS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • TO
    TOWN OF NORWOOD STATUE
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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2
New England Circle D/B/a Global Citizens Circle
Civil Rights
3
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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4
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education
5
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Cancer Support Community Massachusetts South Shore Inc

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.

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7
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc
Employment
9
Historic Boston Incorporated
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10
The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
11
Friends of Nantucket Public Schools Inc

Support and encourage public education on nantucket, ma

Education
12
Meor of Boston Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Hemophilia Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 197 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/76
Grantees still filing
35/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF NORWOOD: $51,050 · OtherTOWN OF NORWOODNorwood High School: $32,200 · OtherNorwood High SchoolNORWOOD SHCOOLS FAMILY MEALS PROGRAM: $30,000 · OtherNORWOOD SHCOOLS FAMILY MEALS PROGRAMNORWOOD CIRCLE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherNORWOOD CIRCLE OF HOPE FOUNDATIONTOWN OF NORWOOD STATUE: $19,078 · OtherPlainville United Methodist Church: $15,050 · OtherChurch of Christ Congregational (UCC) of Norfolk: $15,000 · Other+144 more: $247,588 · Other+144 moreTHE ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD INC: $48,500 · Food & NutritionTHE ECUMENIC…Foxboro Discretionary FundInc: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFoxboro Disc…+1 more: $200 · Food & NutritionMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $10,200 · Human ServicesHEBRON FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human Services+9 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF ST NICK FOUNDATION INC: $13,100 · HealthAMEGOINC: $1,500 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,025 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Health+5 more: $1,300 · HealthLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $6,500 · EducationFOXBOROUGH REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $3,100 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationMassasoit Community College Foundation Inc: $1,250 · EducationNORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIAT: $700 · Education+6 more: $1,500 · EducationNORWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $3,100 · Recreation & SportsNORFOLK BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $2,100 · Recreation & SportsFOXBORO YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsNORWOOD NUGGETS SKATING CLUB INC: $1,800 · Recreation & SportsPLAINVILLE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $1,800 · Recreation & SportsKing Philip Pop Warner Inc: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $350 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF NORWOOD CENTER LTD: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Plainville Parks: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$434,966Food & Nutrition$63,700Human Services$45,200Health$19,025Education$15,550Recreation & Sports$12,150Community Improvement$10,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD INC: $48,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoxboro Discretionary FundInc: $15,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST NICK FOUNDATION INC: $13,100 over 4y, 11% of budgetNORWOOD MEALS ON WHEELS: $12,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $10,200 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORWOOD CENTER LTD: $10,000 over 7y, 36% of budgetLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST PATRICK INC: $4,050 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetFOXBOROUGH REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $3,100 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNORWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $3,100 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNorwood Basketball Association: $2,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHEBRON FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $1,925 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORWOOD NUGGETS SKATING CLUB INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLAINVILLE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMEGOINC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTOPHER CATANESE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMassasoit Community College Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKing Philip Pop Warner Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GIBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK OF MA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEPONSET VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $840 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOLD COLONY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoure With Us Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Plainville Parks: $500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYKIDS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $450 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOVATIONS FOR THE CURE INC: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOXBORO TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC: $350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorwood Youth Soccer Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES CONSORTIUM INC: $300 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 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 FOXBOROUGH REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Middlesex Savings Cha…Amica Companies Found…Citizens Charitable F…United Way Of Massach…Arbella Insurance Fou…Massachusetts Bankers…GivenGain Foundation …Bristol County Saving…Rockland Trust Charit…The Christopher Catan…Dedham Institution fo…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA29.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 400%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
40get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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 Norwood Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Norwood 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 197 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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