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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.

$26M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$54MHuman Services$3.0MYouth Development$32k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $5,962,983, the rows itemized in this filing. The $25,806,665 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,843,682 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $948k
  • $250k+4 grants · $5.0M
$241,329
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $1.2M → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $919k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $819k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $807k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $772k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $713k → 8%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $125k → 11%MONTACHUSETT OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $120k → 11%MONTACUSETT OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $111k → 11%MONTACHUSETT OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $102k → 11%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $101k → 11%MONTACUSETT OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $100k → 11%MONTACUSETT OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $99k → 11%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $89k → 11%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $55k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $200k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $116k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $52k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10k → 11%ALTERNATIVES UNLIMITED INC: $23k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $3.2M → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $3.0M → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $3.0M → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2.0M → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $1.1M → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $981k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $968k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $877k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $831k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $811k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $635k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $537k → 11%THE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $248k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $187k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $187k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $167k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $164k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $162k → 11%THE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $152k → 11%THE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $119k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER INC: $139k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER INC: $46k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 14 repeat orgs$618k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$56M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+17%

Still filing today

86%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $401k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FH
    FRIENDLY HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +96% · 60% of their budget
  • SM
    SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +135%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • BC
    BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $80k
  • RS
    RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +17%
  • YO
    YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC
    one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Casa Esperanza Inc

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.

Health
2
Viability Inc

Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.

Employment
3
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

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…

Health
4
Transition House Inc

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…

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5
Victory Human Services Inc

Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.

Health
6
Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc

Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.

Human Services
7
Project Hope Boston Inc

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…

Human Services
8
North Suffolk Community Services Inc

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…

—
9
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
10
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
11
Youth Crisis Center Inc

The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.

Human Services
12
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC: $22,753,125 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $3,981,120 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER+8 more: $1,573,903 · Other+8 moreFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $15,889,798 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INCSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $7,203,055 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCTHE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,386,876 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCMAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $903,082 · Human Services+3 more: $587,002 · Human ServicesGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $1,472,110 · HealthAIDS PROJECT WORCESTER INC: $400,547 · Health+1 more: $17,000 · HealthWORCESTER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $434,858 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS INC: $117,438 · Community Improvement
Other$28,308,148Human Services$25,969,813Health$1,889,657Housing & Shelter$434,858Community Improvement$117,438

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $15,889,798 over 9y, 60% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $7,203,055 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $3,981,120 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $1,472,110 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,386,876 over 7y, 41% of budgetMAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $903,082 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLUK CRISIS CENTER INC: $668,932 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWORCESTER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $434,858 over 8y, 25% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC: $411,590 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetAIDS PROJECT WORCESTER INC: $400,547 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $378,242 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC: $185,603 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetVETERANS INC: $117,438 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC: $45,018 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC: $32,371 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $23,157 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8,470 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Worcester Com…The Health Foundation…Reliant Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Webster Five Foundati…United Way of Central…Fallon Community Heal…The Fred Harris Danie…Rockland Trust Charit…The Fletcher Foundati…Health Resources in A…AbbVie Foundation
Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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