· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| ORCHID7 FUSION BAR AND GRILL | $10,000 |
| MADHRASI LLC | $10,000 |
| 9 TAILORS | $10,000 |
| D'LIGHTFUL BEAUTY | $10,000 |
| CONRADO STUDIO LLC | $10,000 |
| NINE WINTERS BAKERY | $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 |
| BOSTON PROFESSIONAL SOUND INC | $10,000 |
| 43 STRATEGIC CONSULTING | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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.
How this is measured
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
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.
2 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. 2 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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