· Private foundation
Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation for Metrowest | $25,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Metrowest | $22,500 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central MA & Metrowest | $17,500 |
| North Star Family Services Inc | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| United Way of Tri-County | $5,000 |
| Daniel's Table | $5,000 |
| Gateways Academy Inc | $5,000 |
| Marlborough Regional Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| Special Olympics of Massachusetts | $5,000 |
| Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center | $5,000 |
| The Addiction Referral Center | $5,000 |
| Open Table Inc | $5,000 |
| Hoops & Homework | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC7× · 2019–2025 · $178k · revenue +64%
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +275%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC7× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- HCHudson Cultural Alliance Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +544% · 79% of their budget
- HYHUDSON YOUTH BASEBALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +272%
- BOBBBS of Central MA & Metrowestone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…
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.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…
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,…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Advocacy & education on intellectual and developmental disabilities
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Crocker Field Restoration Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
126 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. 126 of the 184 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Pastoral Counseling Centers of Massachusetts Inc ↗
- Who funds SHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Cultural Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Apple Tree Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PROVISION MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OARS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Addiction Referral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds ASSABET VALLEY MASTERSINGERS ↗
- Who funds SMILE MASS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds A Place To Turn Inc ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OUT METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION 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: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · DCU for Kids
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 Avidia Charitable Foundation 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.
- Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- Programs for People Inc — 59% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services — 47% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Cooperative Elder Services Inc — 36% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Christopher House Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc — 9% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Fitchburg Cultural Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Crossroads Continuum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Special Needs Arts Programs Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Center for Arts in Natick Inc — 3% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gateways Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music 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.