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Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc
The Community Foundation for MetroWest, Inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 158 grants below total $3,603,422 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,114,304 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $510,882 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
- Under $10k41 grants · $275k
- $10k–50k103 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Framingham Adult ESL Program Fund | $365,000 |
| Emerson Health Care Foundation | $211,000 |
| Waltham Boys and Girls Club | $185,837 |
| Massachusetts Bay Community College | $137,500 |
| Literations | $125,500 |
| Dover-Sherborn Youth Baseball & Softball | $125,000 |
| Resist Inc | $100,000 |
| Friends of the Waltham Family School | $100,000 |
| Framingham State University McAuliffe Center | $95,000 |
| Advocates Inc | $64,727 |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest | $61,500 |
| The Bridge Project | $50,000 |
| Metro SouthWest Workforce Board Inc | $50,000 |
| Saga Education | $50,000 |
| A Place to Turn | $42,500 |
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, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
195 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2025, 86 since wound down; 47 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $637k 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
- WBWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +186%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $939k · revenue +88%
- EHEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $859k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- SOSUM OF ALL GRANTS UNDER AND EQUALone grant, 2024 · $404k
- MFMEDFIELD FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $239k · revenue +61%
- FSFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY MCAULIone grant, 2024 · $95k
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.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
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.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To strengthen and connect the statewide network of community action agencies and collectively advocate for an end to poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rose Art Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
288 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. 288 of the 355 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WATCH Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds A Place To Turn Inc ↗
- Who funds NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WALTHAM FAMILY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HILL PLACE ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR A SKILLED WORKFORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WELLESLEY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MINUTEMAN SENIOR 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: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Needham Bank Charitable 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 Foundation for MetroWest 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.
- Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
- Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- Victim Rights Law Center Inc — 89% of income from government
- The Key Program Incorporated — 86% of income from government
- The Edinburg Center Inc — 81% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- English at Large Inc — 49% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services — 47% of income from government
- The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
- Community Investors Inc — 39% of income from government
- Walpole Community Food Pantry Inc — 37% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- Masscreative Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Day Center of Waltham Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Ashland Farmers Market — 18% of income from government
- Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 17% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
- African Cultural Services Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Watch Inc — 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
- Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc — 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
- Medfield Food Cupboard — 6% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Crossroads Continuum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Special Needs Arts Programs Inc — 4% of income from government
- Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Center for Arts in Natick Inc — 3% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Chinese American Association of Lexington Inc — 2% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Think Outside the Vox — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Gore Place Society — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sudbury Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hopkinton Center for the Arts — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lexington Friends of the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.