· Public charity
Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc
Recognizing the dignity of all, cmha leads a collaborative response to homelessness that fosters long-term housing stability through prevention, quality services, education and advocacy.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE 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 9 grants below total $5,962,983 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $25,806,665 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,843,682 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
- $50k–250k5 grants · $948k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HEALTHLINK INC | $2,593,331 |
| SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC | $1,189,394 |
| FRIENDLY HOUSE INC | $831,233 |
| AIDS PROJECT WORCESTER INC | $400,547 |
| GENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC | $241,329 |
| YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC | $200,269 |
| LUK YDHP | $194,599 |
| OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $186,948 |
| MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC | $125,333 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $26.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $401k 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
- FHFRIENDLY HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +96% · 60% of their budget
- SMSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +135%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER6× · 2019–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BCBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $80k
- RSRCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INCone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +17%
- YOYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INCone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -2%
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.
To empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
North suffolk community services supports individuals and families across the lifespan in their pursuit of independence and stability by providing a comprehensive array of treatment and recovery services. our approach is to intervene as…
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
To provide services for disadvantaged youth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Making Opportunity Count Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 22 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.
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds GENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds LUK CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS PROJECT WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Reliant Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Webster Five Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · AbbVie Foundation
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 Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance 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.
- The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Luk Crisis Center Inc — 95% of income from government
- Aids Project Worcester Inc — 63% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Rcap Solutions Inc Formerly Rural Housing Improvement Inc — 3% 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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