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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$43kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$30kInternational$30kYouth Development$25kAnimals$15kEducation$15kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $17,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $95,710 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $78,210 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.
$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$376k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$17,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
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
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

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4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

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
Umass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)

Umass memorial health care, inc. is committed to improving the health of the people of central new england through excellence in clinical care, services, teaching, and research.

Health
7
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
8
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…

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9
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
10
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
11
Junior Achievement of Southern Ma

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

International
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Corporation. 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 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. 16 of the 17 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW …PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPAL OF MASSACHUSE…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncAmerican Tower Corpor…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

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 Baystate Financial Services Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baystate Financial Services Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • The Walden Woods Project: 6% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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