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The Parmenter Foundation Inc

The parmenter foundation provides hope and guidance for metrowest community members of all ages in need of compassionate end-of-life care or bereavement support.

$453k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$2.7MHuman Services$514kEducation$122kFood & Nutrition$89kHousing & Shelter$46kRecreation & Sports$15kCrime & Legal$7k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $386,368 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $452,596 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,228 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $133k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE$133,000
SAMARITAN'S$35,000
JEFF'S PLACE$35,000
ADVOCATES BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PARTNERS OF MW$25,000
WILDFLOWER INC$25,000
E-MOTION$24,654
MASS GENERAL FOR CHILDREN$20,000
THE CHILDREN'S ROOM$20,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORK$15,000
RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY$15,000
CARE DIMENSIONS$9,450
VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN$9,264
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MICHAEL C MCHUGH MEMORIAL FUND: $25k → 7%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $20k → 10%CHARLIE'S GUYS: $5k → 12%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $20k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $20k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $15k → 10%JEFF'S PLACE: $68k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE INC: $46k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $40k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $35k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $20k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE INC: $10k → 8%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $286k → 8%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $133k → 8%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $120k → 8%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $115k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $22k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $82k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $41k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $41k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $20k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 17 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$3.3M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • HO
    HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $654k · revenue +64%
  • TC
    The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children
    5× · 2021–2025 · $203k · revenue +40%
  • AI
    ADVOCATES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • MC
    Michael C McHugh Memorial Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0% · 26% of their budget
  • Dignity Matters Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue +196%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
HospiceCare in the Berkshires Inc

Organized to provide hospice and palliative care services to residents of the local Berkshire County community.

Human Services
2
Empower Grieving Children Inc

Organization provides support to children and young adults who have experienced the loss of a parent.

Human Services
3
CaringBridge

CaringBridge has a single vision: a world where no one goes through a health journey alone. In order to turn this vision into reality, we've made it our mission to build bridges of care and communication providing love and support on a…

Health
4
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
5
Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Inc

To enable people to live with dignity and hope while coping with loss and terminal illness.

Human Services
6
Dartmouth Health Home Care Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

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7
Franciscan Hospital for Children

To create a compassionate and supportive environment where children with complex medical, mental health, and educational needs receive expert, specialized care. Our dedicated team is committed to excellence, innovation, and empowering…

Health
8
Compass to Care

We ensure all families can access life-saving cancer treatment for their children. we carry out this mission by scheduling and paying for travel arrangements to the hospital where a child is being treated for cancer. ultimately, we give…

Health
9
Hospice of Franklin County Inc

To provide Hospice services regardless of a patients ability to pay.

Human Services
10
Coastal Hospice Inc

Provide quality compassionate holistic care to patients at home.

Human Services
11
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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12
Coastal Hospice

Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rett's Roost and the most unlike its peers is Charlies Guys. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%19%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr14%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%38%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr14%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
11%
2,734/25,668

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAREGROUP PARMENTER HOME CARE & HOSPICE INC — $1,221,053 · HealthCAREGROUP PARMENTER HOME CARE & HOSPICE INCADVOCATES INC — $167,942 · HealthADVOCATES INCSAMARITANS INC — $155,500 · HealthSAMARITANS INCCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC — $79,500 · Health+6 more — $145,918 · Health+6 moreHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC — $653,931 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INCJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc — $218,498 · Human ServicesJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Cen…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $202,645 · Human ServicesThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving …RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC+4 more — $77,400 · Human Services+4 moreCare Dimensions Inc — $98,931 · OtherMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC — $74,931 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $45,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $40,000 · OtherWHY ME INC — $10,000 · OtherWILDFLOWER INC — $121,650 · EducationCamp Casco Inc — $35,800 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $45,500 · Housing & ShelterOPEN TABLE INC — $13,600 · Food & NutritionDomestic Violence Services Network Inc — $7,200 · Crime & Legal
Health$1,769,913Human Services$1,227,474Other$268,862Education$121,650Recreation & Sports$50,800Housing & Shelter$45,500Food & Nutrition$13,600Crime & Legal$7,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAREGROUP PARMENTER HOME CARE & HOSPICE INC — $1,221,053 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC — $653,931 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc — $218,498 over 6y, 11% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $202,645 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetADVOCATES INC — $167,942 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITANS INC — $155,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWILDFLOWER INC — $121,650 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc — $98,931 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC — $79,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC — $75,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC — $74,931 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $45,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCamp Casco Inc — $35,800 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC — $27,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMichael C McHugh Memorial Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetE-MOTION INC — $24,654 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDignity Matters Inc — $22,400 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRETT'S ROOST — $14,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC — $13,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHY ME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC — $9,264 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDomestic Violence Services Network Inc — $7,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHARLIES GUYS — $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budget
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.

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.

Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Middlesex Savings Cha…The Sudbury FoundationAvidia Charitable Fou…Metrowest Health Foun…DCU for KidsCommunity Foundation …GivenGain Foundation …The New England Patri…Joy In Childhood Foun…Boston Foundation Inc
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · DCU for Kids · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Boston 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 Parmenter 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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