· Public charity
Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc
Becma's mission is to advance the economic well-being of black businesses, organizations, and residents in massachusetts through advocacy, business and leadership development, and strategic partnerships.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $204,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $359,502 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $154,977 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $171k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VELASQUEZ TAX & BUSINESS SERVICES LLC | $19,000 |
| MOONROCK ENTERPRISES LLC | $11,962 |
| D'LIGHTFUL BEAUTY | $10,000 |
| CONRADO STUDIO LLC | $10,000 |
| NINE WINTERS BAKERY | $10,000 |
| THE BONE SAUCE | $10,000 |
| 43 STRATEGIC CONSULTING | $10,000 |
| CITY SEALCOATING | $10,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST SEED SOWN SALES AND MARKETING LLC | $10,000 |
| HAIR IT BARBERSHOP | $10,000 |
| SAGE FAMILY DENTAL | $10,000 |
| ORCHID7 FUSION BAR AND GRILL | $10,000 |
| BOSTON PROFESSIONAL SOUND INC | $10,000 |
| MADHRASI LLC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
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
- BOBLACK OWNED BOSTON LLC2× · 2022–2023 · $46k
- KEKKRY ENTERPRISE LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $21k
- BPBOSTON PROFESSIONAL SOUND INC DBA BOSTON PRO SOUND2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
Funded once
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +57%- BMBLACK MARKETone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ZRZAZ RESTAURANTone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
2 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. 2 of the 71 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.
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: NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc
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 Black Economic Council of Massachusetts 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.
- Boston 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.