Massachusetts · 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.
- $360k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 96%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $205k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 28
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 96% of the organizations Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $195k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $305k | 96% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $394k | 96% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $82k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Employment$339kCommunity Improvement$291kFood & Nutrition$85kEducation$75kEnvironment$63kHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$35kHealth$27kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Market | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Owned Boston LLC | $46,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Zaz Restaurant | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rock City Pizza Inc | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kkry Enterprise LLC | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Butterfly Falafel | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City Sealcoating | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Professional Sound Inc Dba Boston Pro Sound | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bar and Kitchen Hospitality Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Market | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Owned Boston LLC | $46,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Zaz Restaurant | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rock City Pizza Inc | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kkry Enterprise LLC | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Butterfly Falafel | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City Sealcoating | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Professional Sound Inc Dba Boston Pro Sound | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bar and Kitchen Hospitality Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Logwood Company LLC S-Corp | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Seed Sown Sales and Marketing LLC | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Nubian Markets LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gourmet Kitchen | $18,880 | 2 | n/a |
| Onyxgroup Development | $17,131 | 1 | n/a |
| Malcolm Contracting Services LLC | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cafe Juiceup | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Obi Ibeto - Epinec | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blackbiz Development Group LLC | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Moonrock Enterprises LLC | $11,962 | 1 | n/a |
| Rozki Ridesllc | $11,300 | 1 | n/a |
| New Chapter Hi Services | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Royalty Construction Services LLC | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 9 Tailors | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nine Winters Bakery | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washtone Media LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maxeymize Pr | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hair It Is Barbershop LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caring Medical Staffing LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| D'Lightful Beauty | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shana Bryant Consulting | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rosetta Languages | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Williams Agency | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| L & M Hospitality Group | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Strong Tree Engineering | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Intriguing Hair LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quincy Home Health Care Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Madhrasi LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Coastal Construction Co | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orchid7 Fusion Bar and Grill | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wwoc Media Network | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Martha's Vineyard Black Owned Business Directory | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 43 Strategic Consulting | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Conrado Studio LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bold Skin Babe | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amado Energy Solutions | $8,701 | 1 | n/a |
| Jgj Designs | $8,425 | 1 | n/a |
| Industry Solutions Inc | $8,163 | 1 | n/a |
| Affectus Strategies Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Davis System | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Current Advisors | $7,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Andre King | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Brilla Life Sciences LLC | $7,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Impact Energy LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prive Parking LLC | $5,208 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
NAACP Empowerment Programs IncMD17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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.
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About Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc
- How much does Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc give?
- Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc reported 20 itemized grants totaling $204,525, out of $359,502 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 28 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (34%), Community Improvement (30%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology ($75k), Black Market ($50k), Black Owned Boston LLC ($46k).
- Does Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 96% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc.
- Where is Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc based?
- Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc is based in MA.
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