· Private foundation
The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wakefield Food Pantry | $6,500 |
| Mission of Deeds | $5,000 |
| Neighbors in Need | $5,000 |
| Emmaus | $5,000 |
| Bread & Roses | $4,500 |
| Lazarus House Ministries | $4,000 |
| Communitas | $3,768 |
| Mystic Valley Elder Services | $3,000 |
| Essex Art Center | $3,000 |
| Riverbend | $3,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence | $3,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Metro North | $3,000 |
| Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless | $3,000 |
| The Haven Project | $3,000 |
| Merrimack Valley YMCA | $2,500 |
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, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- WFWakefield Food Pantry Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +60%
EMMAUS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +48%
NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +803%
Funded once
- NRNorth Reading Food Pantryone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAMWAKEFIELDone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To promote responsible and sustainable home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income earners by producing comprehensive training and counseling, as well as promoting the use of special mortgage products and down payment…
Assist people with disabilities
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
The mission of Coming Home is to create a system to end homelessness in Middlesex County by fostering collaborations and public-private partnerships among all stakeholders to ensure that people have a stable place to call home and…
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
Tarry House operates group homes to provide shelter, food and,services to adults with severe mental disorders
Daycare services
To provide housing and supportive services to homeless women and their children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ladybug Love Incorporated. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 44 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 Wakefield Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Essex Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITAS INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds Ladybug Love Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNOR'S KINDNESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEY GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds IRONSTONE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds Si Se Puede Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Teamwork Inc ↗
- Who funds Baby Cafe USA Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Josephine G Russell Trust · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Artemas W Stearns Trust · The Saab Family 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 Savings Bank Charitable Foundation 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.
- Communitas Inc — 88% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Harvey Girls Inc — 13% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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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