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Baystate Financial Services Foundation Inc

The mission of baystate financial services foundation, inc.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20182024.

Recreation & Sports$35kYouth Development$35kInternational$30kHuman Services$30kHealth$28kAnimals$15kEducation$10kArts & Culture$5kOther$38k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $17,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $95,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $78,210 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$376k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$17,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 16%WONDERFUND OF MA: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40k · 3 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$40k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+60%

Still filing today

67%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +58%
  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +23%
  • PO
    PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue -22%

Funded once

  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundationgraduated
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +64%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +60%
  • MW
    MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +39%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

5
The Childrens Museum

Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…

Arts & Culture
6
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

9
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
10
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts Inc

Junior achievement of western massachusetts is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for the future, and make smart academic and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn Massachusetts Chapter 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC — $15,000 · OtherAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLERO…COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM O…ARDENT — $8,170 · OtherARDENTUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW H…JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITYREAD TO A CHILD INC — $5,000 · OtherREAD TO A CHILD INCTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT — $5,000 · OtherTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECTUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPAL OF MASSACHUSE…CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $30,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEM…MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS W…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…Children's Hospital Corporation — $17,500 · HealthChildren's Ho…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUN…COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $15,000 · Animals
Other$53,170Recreation & Sports$35,000Youth Development$35,000International$30,000Human Services$30,000Health$27,500Animals$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Baystate Financial Services 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • The Walden Woods Project6% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Baystate Financial Services Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Baystate Financial Services Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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