· Public charity
Three Squares New England Inc
To partner with hunger-relief organizations to raise critical funds to fight hunger in eastern massachusetts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 +114% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $457k · revenue +29%
- OTOPEN TABLE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $257k · revenue +193%
- WLWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $244k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- JJF&CSone grant, 2017 · $39k
- CSCENTER STREET FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2018 · $21k
- ACACTON COMMUNITY SUPPER AND FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +656%
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.
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…
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…
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 available food resources.
Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.
To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.
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…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
The organization's mission is to engage the community in eliminating food insecurity and hunger in arlington, ma by operating a variety of programs that provide food at no charge to residents who are food insecure.
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.
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…
The heart of the tewksbury community pantry's mission lies in our commitment to assist residents of tewksbury facing hardships. we extend beyond mere food distribution, offering guidance towards additional resources, ensuring our clients…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brookwood Community Farm 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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, 2017–2025.
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. 30 of the 38 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 JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds Brookwood Community Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds A Place To Turn Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTON COMMUNITY SUPPER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAND'S SAKE 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 · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Boston Area Gleaners Inc · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Analog Devices Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Cambridge Savings 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 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.
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service 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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