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Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

$336k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Health$747kHuman Services$258kFood & Nutrition$124kCivil Rights$55kEducation$25kPublic Benefit$8kHousing & Shelter$8k
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $317,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $336,141 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,941 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $192k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$538M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOMERVILLE CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INC$65,076
BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC$55,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$28,500
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE DBA HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$25,000
COASTLINE ELDERLY SERVICES INC$20,554
MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER$20,000
BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$20,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$16,500
DISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC$15,000
FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN$12,500
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC$12,000
MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES$11,570
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS INC$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $8k → 10%COASTLINE ELDERLY SERVICES INC: $21k → 11%ADVOCATES INC: $8k → 14%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $12k → 8%COASTLINE ELDERLY SERVICES INC: $16k → 11%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $24k → 16%ADVOCATES INC: $8k → 14%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $23k → 16%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $23k → 16%BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC: $55k → 8%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $20k → 16%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $20k → 16%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $20k → 16%VINFEN CORPORATION: $20k → 8%BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC: $10k → 16%BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC: $6k → 16%BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC: $5k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $12k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $12k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $10k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $10k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$699k · 10 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$699k
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

  • HC
    HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +313%
  • BC
    BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +74%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $78k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CATALYST INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +29%
  • THE PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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2
Central Boston Elder Services Inc

To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.

Human Services
3
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
4
Boston Senior Home Care Inc

Boston senior home care is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes and community with dignity and independence.

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5
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
6
North End Community Health Committee

To operate a community health center providing a full range of health care services including medical, dental, vision, mental health and elder services to residents of the north end, charlestown and west end of boston, massachusetts.

Health
7
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
8
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
9
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Inc

To serve, educate, and inspire our patients in becoming more knowledgeable and participatory in their total health. to be a regional resource and leader focused on improving public health in the communities we serve.

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10
Masonic Health System of Massachusetts Inc

To sponsor, develop, offer and/or promote services and programs relating to the care, treatment and healing of humans, which services and programs are charitable, scientific, and/or educational and which address the physical and mental…

Philanthropy
11
Massachusetts Senior Action Council Inc

The massachusetts senior action council, inc.'s (the organization) mission is to provide a collective voice for senior citizens to address quality-of-life concerns in various areas including health care, housing and security.

Civil Rights
12
Massachusetts Health & Hospital Assoc Inc

To advance the health of individuals and communities by serving as the leading voice for all massachusetts hospitals and healthcare systems and to help them provide high quality, cost-effective and equitable patient care.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Association of Social Workers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%69%35–55yr14%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%70%35–55yr14%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,327

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC — $255,000 · OtherHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INCSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED — $65,076 · OtherSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORP…THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $30,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INCTHE PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $27,000 · OtherTHE PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS IN…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCIndividual grant recipient — $24,500 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS — $16,500 · Other+2 more — $18,000 · OtherBOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $129,116 · Human ServicesBOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LI…BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES HOMEWARD INCHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $54,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INCCOASTLINE ELDERLY SERVICES INC — $36,054 · Human ServicesCOASTLINE ELDERLY SERVICES INCBOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC — $20,800 · Human ServicesBOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INCVINFEN CORPORATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesVINFEN CORPORATIONADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $19,070 · Human Services+2 moreNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $77,500 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON M…COMMUNITY CATALYST INC — $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CATALYST INCMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC — $40,000 · HealthMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $28,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & …NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION — $15,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORA…MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · HealthWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc — $10,000 · HealthADVOCATES INC — $10,000 · HealthMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $16,500 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $12,500 · Food & NutritionDISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC — $55,000 · Civil RightsPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 · Education
Other$461,076Human Services$349,040Health$241,000Food & Nutrition$69,000Civil Rights$55,000Education$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC — $255,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetBOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $129,116 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $77,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED — $65,076 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC — $55,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $54,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOASTLINE ELDERLY SERVICES INC — $36,054 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $28,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC — $20,800 over 3y, 10% of budgetVINFEN CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $16,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $11,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncPoint32health Foundat…Cambridge Savings Cha…Mass General Brigham …Children's Hospital C…Mass General Brigham …Health Resources in A…United Way Of Massach…Liberty Mutual Founda…Tufts Associated Heal…Massachusetts League …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA35× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Point32health Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated · Children's Hospital Corporation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Health Resources in Action Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization Inc · Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers 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 Commonwealth Care 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 52%
  • Vinfen Corporation — 83% of income from government
  • Disability Policy Consortium Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
  • New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Coastline Elderly Services Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Health Council Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $142k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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