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Coastline Elderly Services Inc

New Bedford, MA · EIN 04-2622121. Reported 54 grants totalling $876,274 to 20 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$11,070median reported grant
$876,274granted, 2020-2023
80%of grantees funded again the next year
17%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Coastline Elderly Services Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P81Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $11,070. Half of what it reported fell between $7,563 and $18,833; the smallest was $5,010 and the largest $74,385. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
25 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
South Coastal Counties Legal Services IncFall River, MA$150,133332023
Immigrants Assistance Center IncNew Bedford, MA$118,443442023
New Bedford Council on AgingNew Bedford, MA$102,490742023
People Acting in Community Endeavors IncNew Bedford, MA$89,025442023
South Coastal Counties Legal Services IncFall River, MA$74,385112022
Mashpee Wampanoag TribeMashpee, MA$71,246442023
M O L I F E IncFairhaven, MA$45,787332022
YWCA of Southeastern MassachuettsNew Bedford, MA$40,097442023
Buzzards Bay Speech TherapyMattapoisett, MA$35,583442023
Project Independence Services IncNew Bedford, MA$27,829332022
Town of DartmouthDartmouth, MA$24,488332023
Mobile Dental Hygiene Services LlpForestdale, MA$20,056222022
Community Connections IncS Yarmouth, MA$16,613332023
Fairhaven Council on AgingFairhaven, MA$14,034222023
Rochestor Council on AgingRochester, MA$12,090222022
Moxie Mobility TrainMarion, MA$9,121112023
Visting Dental HygenistLakeville, MA$7,268112020
Marion Council on AgingMarion, MA$6,100112020
Project IndependenceNew Bedford, MA$5,854112023
Acushnet Council on AgingAcushnet, MA$5,632112021

14 of 20 (70%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 5 of 20 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
3 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Employment
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202012$184,352$11,272
202116$232,977$8,709
202214$261,563$12,941
202312$197,382$9,072

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

New Bedford, MA
$384K
Fall River, MA
$225K
Mashpee, MA
$71K
Fairhaven, MA
$60K
Mattapoisett, MA
$36K
Dartmouth, MA
$24K
Forestdale, MA
$20K
S Yarmouth, MA
$17K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,070 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Coastline Elderly Services Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 863 Belleville Avenue, New Bedford, MA, 02745.

EIN 04-2622121 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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