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· Public charity

Agespan Inc

To ensure everyone's choice to lead fulfilling lives as they age.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.7MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$457kCommunity Improvement$114kEmployment$70kHousing & Shelter$66kArts & Culture$39kPublic Benefit$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $247,934, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,128,474 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $880,540 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
$10,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC$101,909
GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC$51,031
RUTH'S HOUSE$20,000
LAWRENCE COUNCIL ON AGING$15,840
MIDDLETON COUNCIL ON AGING$11,667
EMMAUS INC$10,050
PEABODY COA$9,167
SALEM COA$9,166
MARBLEHEAD COA$8,333
MA ALLIANCE$5,417
NE HOMES FOR THE DEAF$5,354
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RUTH'S HOUSE: $24k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $20k → 10%MA ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS: $5k → 16%RUTH'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $11k → 10%MA ALLIANCE: $6k → 8%MA ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%EMMAUS INC: $10k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $10k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $10k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $10k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $6k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $5k → 10%EMMAUS: $5k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $5k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $5k → 10%AMESBURY COUNCIL ON AGING: $7k → 10%SALEM COUNCIL ON AGING: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 13 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
25

Total granted

$3.3M
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+533%

Still filing today

54%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NI
    NORTHEAST INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +90%
  • NORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +176%
  • HR
    Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
    3× · 2017–2019 · $421k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • LP
    LOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CO
    City of Haverhill - Haverhill Public Schools
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • MC
    METHUEN COUNCIL ON AGING
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northeast Independent Living Services

To enhance the rights & independence of people with disabilities to actively participate in their communities & to live self-determined lives.

Unclassified
2
North Shore Elder Services Inc

The mission of north shorb elder services is to serve the functional needs of older adults residing on the north shore of massachusetts and provide support, information, and service to them and their families.

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3
The Shared Living Collaborative Inc

To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities

Human Services
4
Southeastern Massachusetts Home Health Aides Inc

Homecare services and home health aide services.

Human Services
5
Northeast Senior Services Inc

To assist seniors in living independently in their homes

—
6
Northfield Senior Citizens Inc FiftyNorth

To promote well being among area senior citizens.

—
7
New England Business Associates Inc

Support employment for disabled individuals.

—
8
New England Resident Service Coordinators Inc

Resident Service Coordinators are professionals who serve elders, youth and families in their housing communities. NERSC provides training & professional development, including on-line courses for Resident Service Coordinators and housing…

Housing & Shelter
9
New England Handicapped Sports Association

NEHSA is a volunteer non-profit organization operated for and by individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to integrate individuals into society through sports and social activities.

—
10
Assisted Living Center Inc

Provide assisted living facilities for low to moderate income elders.

Housing & Shelter
11
Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.

Human Services
12
Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern Massachusetts Inc

To provide comprehensive, high-quality home healthcare to the community to all who need services within our financial resources and through the generosity of the communities served by the vna.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Homes for the Deaf Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ruths House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHEAST INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM INC: $1,187,866 · OtherNORTHEAST INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM INCCITY OF PEABODY: $88,559 · OtherMIDDLETON COUNCIL ON AGING: $82,726 · OtherCITY OF SALEM: $80,598 · OtherLAWRENCE COUNCIL ON AGING: $68,906 · Other+27 more: $395,144 · Other+27 moreNORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC: $1,096,615 · Crime & LegalNORTHEAST LEGAL AID INCHebrew Rehabilitation Center: $421,194 · HealthHebrew Rehabi…RUTHS HOUSE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesEMMAUS INC: $66,100 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC: $17,042 · Human ServicesSalem NH Council on Aging Inc: $13,000 · Human ServicesFriends of the Amesbury Council on Aging Inc: $7,382 · Human Services
Other$1,903,799Crime & Legal$1,096,615Health$421,194Human Services$173,524

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHEAST INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM INC: $1,187,866 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetNORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC: $1,096,615 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetHebrew Rehabilitation Center: $421,194 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRUTHS HOUSE INC: $70,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetEMMAUS INC: $66,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $51,031 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew England Homes for the Deaf Inc: $24,574 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC: $17,042 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSalem NH Council on Aging Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFriends of the Amesbury Council on Aging Inc: $7,382 over 1y, 69% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NORTHEAST INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Rehabilitation Center ↗
  • Who funds RUTHS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds New England Homes for the Deaf Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Salem NH Council on Aging Inc ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Amesbury Council on Aging Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Center for Technology…Essex County Communit…Project Lead the Way …Eastern Bank Foundati…North Shore Elder Ser…Greater Lowell Health…Greater Lowell Commun…Salem Five Charitable…Health Resources in A…Cummings Foundation G…United Way Of Massach…Boston Foundation Inc
Center for Technology and Civic LifeIL34.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Technology and Civic Life · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · North Shore Elder Services Inc · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Agespan Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agespan Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Hebrew Rehabilitation Center: 53% of income from government
  • New England Homes for the Deaf Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Northeast Legal Aid Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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