How much did THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $31k
$10k–50k14 grants · $303k
$50k–250k1 grant · $81k

$17,251

Median grant

States reached

$194k

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S SERVICES$81,025
CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY$45,937
FOOD LINK$32,864
OPEN TABLE$30,976
BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY FARM$28,853
NEWTON FOOD PANTRY$24,564
WALTHAM FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM$21,217
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS$18,835
MGH REVERE FOOD PANTRY$18,594
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE$17,251
THE FOOD PROJECT$16,866
ELLIE FUND$13,992
COMMUNITY SERVINGS$11,607
A PLACE TO TURN$10,746
WELLESLEY FOOD PANTRY$10,721

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.2M · 30 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +162% since the first grant, against +99% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+162%

+99%

Still filing today

73%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S SERVICES
6× · 2019–2024 · $420k · revenue +29%
WL
WOMENS LUNCH PLACE
8× · 2017–2024 · $244k · revenue +139%
OT
OPEN TABLE
7× · 2017–2023 · $226k · revenue +151%

Funded once

J
JF&CS
one grant, 2017 · $39k
JF
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES
one grant, 2018 · $37k
CS
CENTER STREET FOOD PANTRY
one grant, 2018 · $21k

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.

Berkshire Food Project Inc

To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access food resources

Food & Nutrition

Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

The greater boston food bank's mission is to end hunger in eastern massachusetts.

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Digger Foods Inc

The digger foods, inc.'s mission is to make local, organic, and seasonal food available to everyone in the local area. in september 2022, the organization launched a local food delivery program in and around brockton. our goal is to…

Food & Nutrition

The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

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Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition

Wellfleet Food Pantry

Food pantry to provide food to community members in need

Education

Berkeley Food Network

The berkeley food network (bfn) works to expand food assistance services to food-insecure berkeley residents. bfn was founded in 2016 to help establish a foundation of good health from which all berkeley residents can pursue opportunity by…

Food & Nutrition

The Food Drive Inc

The corporation was organized in melrose, massachusetts to promote food access, food justice, and climate action. we partner with commercial and community sources to rescue wholesome food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it…

Food & Nutrition

Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc

To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.

Human Services

Belmont Food Pantry Inc

To provide food and assistance for residents of belmont, massachusetts who feel compelled to ask for food and/or assistance. the sole activity of the organization is to operate a food pantry run exclusively by volunteers in the town.

Food & Nutrition

Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc

Loaves & fishes' mission is to provide nutritious food, in an atmosphere of kindness and respect, to individuals in need who reside in ayer, devens, dunstable, groton, harvard, littleton, and shirley, massachusetts.

Human Services

The Peoples Pantry

Distributing food to those in need residing in southern bekshire county, ma

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Farms Outreach Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/35

the rest of the field

10%

2,130/21,698

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

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

28/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,697,749Food & Nutrition$1,406,842Community Improvement$231,046Human Services$55,420Education$19,930Philanthropy$11,971Environment$250

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.

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.

Community Foundation ForMA33× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation For · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Area Gleaners Inc · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable · Analog Devices Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Joy In Childhood 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 organisation THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND 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.

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0rely 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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 3.7× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822328676 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Three Squares New England Inc?

Find your warmest path to Three Squares New England Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Three Squares New England Inc?

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THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Three Squares New England Inc?

More from the funding graph