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The Provident Community Charitable Organization 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.

$248k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$336kHousing & Shelter$150kArts & Culture$133kYouth Development$97kHealth$93kPhilanthropy$50kEmployment$18kFood & Nutrition$11kCrime & Legal$10kOther$520k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Nb Bancporp Inc.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mark Stebbins Community Center$50,000
Gather (aka Seacoast Family Food Pantry)$25,000
Friends of the Music Hall$21,000
The Pettengill House$15,000
Cross Roads House$15,000
Easter Seals New Hampshire$12,500
Moore Center Services Inc$12,000
City Year$10,000
Portsmouth Music & Arts Center$10,000
Hope on Haven Hill$7,500
Prescott Park Art Festival$7,000
Harbor Care$5,000
Boys & Girls Club of Manchester$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
New Hampshire Jumpstart Coalition$5,000
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, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $15k → 7%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $13k → 7%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $13k → 7%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $13k → 7%Community Action Partnership of Strafford County: $5k → 9%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $3k → 7%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $3k → 7%Gather: $10k → 5%YWCA of Greater Newburyport: $5k → 10%YWCA of Greater Newburyport: $5k → 10%Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center: $5k → 10%Port City Makerspace: $10k → 5%YWCA of Greater Newburyport: $5k → 10%Port City Makerspace: $5k → 5%Port City Makerspace: $3k → 5%Moore Center Services Inc: $12k → 7%Moore Center Services Inc: $12k → 7%Community Service of Newburyport Inc: $2k → 10%Moore Center Services Inc: $12k → 7%Our Neighbors' Table: $50k → 10%Moore Center Services Inc: $12k → 7%The Pettengill House: $20k → 10%The Webster House: $5k → 7%The Pettengill House: $20k → 10%Moore Center: $12k → 7%The Pettengill House: $16k → 10%The Pettengill House: $15k → 10%The Pettengill House: $10k → 10%The Pettengill House: $10k → 10%Our Neighbors' Table: $5k → 10%Our Neighbors' Table: $5k → 10%Our Neighbors' Table: $1k → 10%Our Neighbors' Table: $1k → 10%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 34 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
30

Total granted

$1.2M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+37%

Still filing today

74%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +32%
  • TP
    The Pettengill House Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +79%
  • CR
    Cross Roads House Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SR
    SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +43%
  • MO
    Museum of New Art (MONA) Portsmouth
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • G
    Gathergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +181%

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
Harbor Homes Inc

Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…

Housing & Shelter
2
Greater Newburyport Community Media Hub Inc

To provide community access cable channels and the use of video equipment to residents in and around Newburyport, MA

Arts & Culture
3
Concord Area Trust for Community Housing

Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.

Housing & Shelter
4
Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity Inc

The mission of Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity is to transform lives in our community by building and repairing homes in partnership with the families we serve. Our vision is a world where everyone has a safe, affordable, and decent…

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5
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
6
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
7
Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging Inc

We support people age 60 and older persons with disabilities in their efforts to remain active healthy, financially secure, and in control of their own lives. The Agency connects people and the services they they need to live independently…

Human Services
8
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
9
Greater Nashua Council on Alcoholism Keystone Hall

The holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.

Health
10
The Well Ne

The Well's mission is to deliver real solutions in behavioral health through compassion, innovation, and collaboration. By building an inclusive community, we offer comprehensive treatment and resources to empower individuals of diverse…

Health
11
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
12
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mark Stebbins Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Amesbury Educational Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity-Based Human Servi…Youth Sports ProgramsRegional History MuseumsCommunity Health and Social…Affordable Housing Developm…Regional Healthcare DeliverySupportive Housing & Servic…Christian International Dev…Public Safety Worker UnionsCommunity Performing Arts O…Emergency Food AssistanceFamily Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr13%4%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr17%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%6%<5yr13%1%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr17%34%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
10%
908/9,190

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

52 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. 52 of the 71 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
40/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRANITE UNITED WAY — $80,000 · OtherGRANITE UNITED WAYANNA JAQUES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherANNA JAQUES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONGather (aka Seacoast Family Food Pantry) — $57,000 · OtherGather (aka Seacoast Family Food Pantry)Amesbury Educational Foundation Inc — $55,000 · OtherAmesbury Educational Foundation IncBoys & Girls Club Lower Merrimack Valley — $45,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club Lower Merrimack ValleyNew Hampshire Film Festival (aka NH Film Expo) — $24,375 · OtherGirls Inc — $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $20,000 · Other+31 more — $175,140 · Other+31 moreThe Pettengill House Inc — $91,000 · Human ServicesThe Pettengill House IncOur Neighbors' Table Inc — $62,000 · Human ServicesOur Neighbors' Table IncMOORE CENTER SERVICES INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesMOORE CENTER SERVICES INCEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc — $58,150 · Human ServicesEaster Seals New Hampshire…PORT CITY MAKERSPACE — $17,500 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian Association of Newburyport — $15,000 · Human Services+6 more — $32,000 · Human Services+6 moreCross Roads House Inc — $90,000 · Housing & ShelterCross Roads…Families in Transition — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilies in…TURNING POINT INC AND AFFILIATES — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTURNING POI…Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterHousing Support Inc — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterFriends of The Music Hall — $51,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of…PRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $21,500 · Arts & CulturePRESCOTT P…PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePORTSMOUTH…SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSEACOAST R…Amesbury Carriage Museum Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAmesbury C…PALACE THEATRE TRUST — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePALACE THE…ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureICE DANCE …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER — $97,000 · Youth DevelopmentANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC — $53,300 · HealthHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC — $27,500 · HealthJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthMark Stebbins Community Center — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$559,015Human Services$335,650Housing & Shelter$150,000Arts & Culture$132,500Youth Development$97,000Health$93,300Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER — $97,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Pettengill House Inc — $91,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCross Roads House Inc — $90,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc — $62,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMOORE CENTER SERVICES INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JAQUES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc — $58,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmesbury Educational Foundation Inc — $55,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC — $53,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall — $51,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $21,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPORT CITY MAKERSPACE — $17,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Newburyport — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOpportunity Works Inc — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCORE Association — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGather — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmesbury Carriage Museum Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNourishing the North Shore Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTURNING POINT INC AND AFFILIATES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALACE THEATRE TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Granite Young Men's Christian Association — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEBSTER HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL CONNECTIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYPOINT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHousing Support Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNH Businesses for Social Responsibility — $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI GOT BRIDGED — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNational Collaborative for the Digital Economy — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOUR PLACE NH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern District YMCA-Camp Lincoln Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Service of Newburyport Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST NH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…New Hampshire Charita…Newburyport Bank Char…Cogswell Benevolent T…Institution for Savin…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Granite United WayNorwin S and Elizabet…Madelaine G Vonweber …Td Charitable Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA54.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Granite United Way · Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Td Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank 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 Provident Community Charitable Organization 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 · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Turning Point Inc and Affiliates — 97% of income from government
  • Coastal Connections Inc — 96% of income from government
  • Opportunity Works Inc — 77% of income from government
  • Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
  • John Ashford Link House — 25% of income from government
  • Nourishing the North Shore Inc — 20% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Anna Jaques Hospital Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Provident Community Charitable Organization Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Provident Community Charitable Organization 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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