· Public charity
Community Action Pioneer Valley
COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY is dedicated to promoting economic justice and improving the quality of life for people with low income.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $2,740,424 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,971,669 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,231,245 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $780k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC | $663,841 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY DIALSELF | $522,580 |
| LOUISON HOUSE | $318,813 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $280,433 |
| GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $249,177 |
| SERVICENET | $136,408 |
| COOLEY DICKENSON HOSPITAL | $125,962 |
| CLINICAL SUPPORT OPTIONS | $123,504 |
| BERKSHIRE REGIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY | $83,481 |
| LIFEPATH | $61,662 |
| CONSTRUCT INC | $46,111 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,314 |
| WAYFINDERS | $29,129 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| HILLTOWN CDC | $15,309 |
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 (FY17–22, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +98% since the first grant, against +85% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- CFCENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +57%
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY DIALSELF INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +45% · 32% of their budget
- LHLOUISON HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $872k · revenue +195% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- SOSOLDIER ON INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +85%
- THThe Heartwing Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +86%
- CLCASA LATINA INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -81%
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.
The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers…
Low income elderly housing.
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…
Human development services of westchester, inc. ("hdsw")is a social service organization providing quality behavorial health, rehabilitative, health, residential and community stabilization services in westchester county. hdsw is dedicated…
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.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
To assist societys most disenfranchised; the elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, people living with AIDS and the physically challenged by promoting, fostering and providing the highest quality of housing and services in a…
To promote, organize and manage programs that provide affordable housing in order to improve the quality of life in the southeastern massachusetts area.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Franklin County Community Meals Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY DIALSELF INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICENET INC ↗
- Who funds GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLINICAL & SUPPORT OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTHWAY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WAY FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEPATH INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER ON INC ↗
- Who funds Stone Soup Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Heartwing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA LATINA 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Health New England Inc · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation 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 Community Action Pioneer Valley 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.
- Lifepath Inc — 85% of income from government
- Soldier On Inc — 83% of income from government
- Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
- Mental Health Association Inc — 66% of income from government
- Gandara Mental Health Center Inc — 55% of income from government
- Clinical & Support Options Inc — 32% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
- Franklin County Dialself Inc — 11% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Hearthway Inc — 2% of income from government
- Louison House Inc — 1% 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.