· Public charity
Baystate Health Inc
The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $375,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $399,721 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,721 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $250,000 |
| BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $65,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH POLICY FORUM | $30,000 |
| BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| PHYSICIAN HEALTH SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Baystate Health Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PFPARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +288%
- BHBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +18%
- BMBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2019–2024 · $81k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -25%
- GWGREATER WESTFIELD EMERGENCYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +77%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +60%
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.
The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.
The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.
The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.
The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baystate Medical Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Westfield Emergency. 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.
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 PARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPSPRINGFIELD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIAN HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WESTFIELD EMERGENCY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
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 Health 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.
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Partners for a Healthier Community Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation 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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