· Public charity
Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc
Ace builds the power of communities of color and low-income communities in massachusetts to eradicate environmental racism and classism, create healthy, sustainable communities, and achieve environmental justice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT INC | $1,706,890 |
| MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $59,996 |
| RESIST | $44,000 |
| AFRIKAI LLC | $40,000 |
| DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC | $22,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC | $22,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC | $22,000 |
| EMPOWER HER ENVIRONMENT WELLNESS INC | $12,500 |
| CHOICES4TEENS MENTORING GROUP | $10,000 |
| AYNI INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
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 massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
We seek to facilitate a just energy transition by putting black and brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. we are powering a just energy transition in the…
Engage workers and allies in promoting safe, healthy working conditions through education, advocacy and coalition-building.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
Preserve affordable low income housing in boston and the surrounding area
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Resource Workshop Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban League of Eastern Masschusetts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSCHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES 4 TEENS MENTORING GROUP ↗
- Who funds AYNI INSTITUTE 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Resist Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Third Sector New England Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Alternatives for Community and Environment 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.
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% 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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