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· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $386,368, the rows itemized in this filing. The $452,596 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,228 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
THE CHILDREN'S ROOM$20,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
MASS GENERAL FOR CHILDREN$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

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 (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. Its 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
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
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
3
Empower Grieving Children Inc

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

Human Services
4
HospiceCare in the Berkshires Inc

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

Human Services
5
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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6
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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7
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
8
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
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Inc

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

Human Services
11
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
12
Anns Place Inc

Anns Place mission is to provide comfort, support and resources to people living with cancer and to their loved ones, helping to create a unique pathway through cancer to improve their quality of life. All services are offered free of…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rett's Roost; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 29 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetMichael C McHugh Memorial Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetE-MOTION INC: $24,654 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $22,400 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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.

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 29 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 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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