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The Sudbury Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
137
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.8MYouth Development$2.4MFood & Nutrition$2.0MHuman Services$1.0MEnvironment$754kArts & Culture$734kHealth$604kRecreation & Sports$571kOther$0
02FY2024 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k73 grants · $357k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $207k
$6,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST$100,000
THE WAYSIDE INN FOUNDATION$57,000
COLLEGE PLANNING COLLABORATIVE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST$45,000
CISA (COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE)$40,000
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS$40,000
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$40,000
OARS$40,000
SPOONFULS$40,000
MASS FOOD SYSTEM COLLABORATIVE$40,000
SUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$39,000
LITERATIONS$34,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY$34,000
THE CARROT PROJECT - TSNE$33,000
MILL CITY GROWS$33,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY: $34k → 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY: $30k → 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY: $25k → 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY: $20k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY: $20k → 8%THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $25k → 8%THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 8%THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 8%THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $19k → 8%THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $17k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $30k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $25k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $25k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $25k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $25k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $24k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $20k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $20k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $20k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $20k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $20k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $20k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $20k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $14k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $10k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $10k → 8%METROWEST YMCA: $10k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $25k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $21k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $21k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $20k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $20k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $20k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $14k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $12k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $9k → 8%THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC: $25k → 8%THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC: $25k → 8%THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC: $20k → 8%THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC: $11k → 8%HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $16k → 8%FRESH START FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 8%SUDBURY EXTENDED DAY INC: $25k → 8%HOPESUDBURY: $15k → 8%GIFTS OF HOPE UNLIMITED: $13k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
NH
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MA
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 171 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

171 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

171
62

Total granted

$11M
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+14%

Still filing today

70%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $508k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +66%
  • DW
    DOC WAYNE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $482k · revenue +196%
  • RE
    REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $341k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • MC
    METROWEST COLLEGE PLANNING COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIPS FOR A SKILLED WORKFORCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -62%

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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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10
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Gifts of Hope Unlimited 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 backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development CentersElementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Christian Youth CampsHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Public Library OperationsLocal Food System Organizat…Domestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterYmca Youth DevelopmentCommunity Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Developm…School Parent OrganizationsLocal History MuseumsEquine Therapy ProgramsDevelopmental Disabilities …Policy Research and AdvocacyLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity Foundations
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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr14%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr14%34%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/190
the rest of the field
11%
4,713/42,168

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

176 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. 176 of the 282 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
175/176
Grantees still filing
148/176
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOWN OF SUDBURY — $320,594 · OtherTOWN OF SUDBURYSUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $340,000 · OtherSUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $330,000 · OtherTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $225,500 · OtherOUT METROWEST INC — $277,210 · Other+103 more — $4,212,163 · Other+103 moreJOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationJOHN ANDREW MA…BETHANY HILL PLACE — $92,800 · EducationBETHANY HILL P…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $80,000 · EducationWILDFLOWER INC — $65,500 · EducationCornell University — $55,000 · Education+49 more — $1,208,439 · Education+49 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $925,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…SPARK KINDNESS INC — $178,675 · Youth DevelopmentSPARK KINDNES…HOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC — $164,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOOPS AND HOM…THINKGIVE INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHINKGIVE INCLITERATIONS CORP — $54,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $66,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $330,500 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA …MILL CITY GROWS INC — $307,000 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY GR…COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC — $305,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY IN…SPOONFULS — $256,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULSThe Food Project Inc — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $78,500 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc — $171,000 · Human ServicesJeff's Pl…WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC — $132,887 · Human ServicesWAYSIDE Y…THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY INC — $129,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOYS …JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $128,250 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $117,000 · Human ServicesMETROWEST…THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $101,130 · Human ServicesTHE GUILD…THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC — $90,325 · Human ServicesTHRIVE SU…REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $39,570 · Human Services+7 more — $173,900 · Human Services+7 moreREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $341,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $74,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 · EnvironmentSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $62,000 · EnvironmentOARS INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentDOC WAYNE INC — $481,650 · Recreation & SportsCamp Casco Inc — $68,200 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $16,436 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,705,467Education$1,601,739Youth Development$1,478,925Food & Nutrition$1,327,000Human Services$1,083,062Environment$584,500Recreation & Sports$566,286

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $925,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetDOC WAYNE INC — $481,650 over 7y, 16% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $341,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetSUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $340,000 over 6y, 62% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $330,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $330,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC — $307,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC — $305,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetOUT METROWEST INC — $277,210 over 5y, 53% of budgetSPOONFULS — $256,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $225,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE WAYSIDE INN — $182,250 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSPARK KINDNESS INC — $178,675 over 8y, 18% of budgetJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc — $171,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC — $164,500 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $142,727 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC — $132,887 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY INC — $129,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $128,250 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $117,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $101,130 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSMILE MASS INC — $99,150 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $94,800 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC — $93,720 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetBETHANY HILL PLACE — $92,800 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetTHRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC — $90,325 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC — $90,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetADVOCATES INC — $87,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC — $81,200 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetEMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC — $81,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $79,240 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $77,227 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $74,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Casco Inc — $68,200 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILDFLOWER INC — $65,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $62,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC — $61,160 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $59,555 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCornell University — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP — $54,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Food Project Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGOODNOW LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $49,089 over 4y, 16% of budgetMETROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC — $47,625 over 6y, 10% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $47,500 over 7y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds DOC WAYNE INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds OUT METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WAYSIDE INN ↗
  • Who funds SPARK KINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE MASS INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY HILL PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds THINKGIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST 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.

Middlesex Savings Cha…Community Foundation …Cummings Foundation G…Metrowest Health Foun…Avidia Charitable Fou…MutualOne Charitable …Eastern Bank Foundati…DCU for KidsBoston Foundation IncGivenGain Foundation …Greater Lowell Commun…Rockland Trust Charit…
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA118.7× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · DCU for Kids · Boston Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable 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 Sudbury 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 380%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services — 47% of income from government
  • The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
  • World Farmers Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
  • University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
  • One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Crossroads Continuum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Metro Community Development Corporation — 5% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Think Outside the Vox — 2% of income from government
  • Regis College — 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Spark Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
  • American International College — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sudbury Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University — 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University — 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • Curry College — 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
38get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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.

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How do I get to The Sudbury Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sudbury Foundation 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 282 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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