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Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
The COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS seeks to enrich the quality of life of the people of our region by encouraging philanthropy, developing a permanent, flexible endowment, assessing and responding to emerging and changing needs, serving as a resource, catalyst, and coordinator for charitable activities, and promoting…
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 392 grants below total $22,442,706 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,568,213 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,125,507 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 $10k62 grants · $455k
- $10k–50k253 grants · $6.1M
- $50k–250k53 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+24 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE OF BOSTON | $615,000 |
| JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC | $615,000 |
| CASTLE OF OUR SKINS INC | $615,000 |
| HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC | $615,000 |
| SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASS INC | $615,000 |
| DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC | $575,276 |
| ELEVATED THOUGHT INC | $515,000 |
| ANGKOR DANCE TROUPE INC | $515,000 |
| THE LOOP LAB INC | $515,000 |
| SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE | $470,000 |
| HILLTOWN LAND TRUST INC | $460,613 |
| SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION TRINITY HEALTH OF NEW ENGLAND | $445,169 |
| ABILITIES DANCE INC | $415,000 |
| AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC | $415,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $377,840 |
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, $10.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
479 repeat relationships — 297 still active in FY2025, 182 since wound down; 72 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- THTRINITY HEALTH OF NEW ENGLAND PROVIDER NETWORK ORGANIZATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +29%
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +133%- GCGREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +13% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -7%
- GGGARDNER GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $190k · revenue +53%
- POPROJECT ON PREDATORY STUDENT LENDINGgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +171%
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Renal Dialysis Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
686 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 686 of the 827 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 TRINITY HEALTH OF NEW ENGLAND PROVIDER NETWORK ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KESTREL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds ELEVATED THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLE OF OUR SKINS INC ↗
- Who funds FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOME FOR THE AGED OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Bay Path University ↗
- Who funds SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ANGKOR DANCE TROUPE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEPATH INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILBRAHAM AND MONSON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ENLACE DE FAMILIAS DE HOLYOKE HOLYOKE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADOLESCENT RESOURCE AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Health New England Inc · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Henrietta F Dexter Tuw-Dexter Ch
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 of Western Massachusetts 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.
- All Farmers Inc — 100% of income from government
- Lifepath Inc — 85% of income from government
- Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
- Alianza Dv Services Inc — 82% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc — 81% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
- Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc — 72% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Springfield Day Nursery Corporation — 61% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Give Music Inc — 56% of income from government
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc — 55% of income from government
- Gandara Mental Health Center Inc — 55% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Palante Transformative Justice Inc — 52% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Performance Project Inc — 40% of income from government
- Caring Health Center Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc — 32% of income from government
- Clinical & Support Options Inc — 32% of income from government
- Springfield Cultural Partnership Inc Attn Karen Finn — 31% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- Behavioral Health Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
- Valley Opportunity Council Inc — 25% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Franklin County Community Development Corporation — 22% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated — 21% of income from government
- Children's Advocacy Center of Franklin and North Quabbin Inc — 20% of income from government
- Heath Agricultural Society Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Art Garden Inc — 18% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc — 15% of income from government
- Springfield Jewish Community Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Self-Evident Education Inc — 13% of income from government
- Blues to Green Inc — 12% of income from government
- Franklin County Dialself Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc — 10% of income from government
- Angkor Dance Troupe Inc — 10% of income from government
- Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% of income from government
- South End Community Center of Spfld Inc — 9% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Enchanted Circle Inc — 9% of income from government
- Springfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 8% of income from government
- Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Tech Foundry Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Baystate Noble Hospital Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Young at Heart Chorus Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Five Colleges Incorporated — 3% of income from government
- 3RD Eye Youth Empowerment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theatrezone Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bay Path University — 3% of income from government
- Mary Lyon Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Drama Studio Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region — 2% of income from government
- Holyoke Community Media Inc — 2% of income from government
- Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Abilities Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Western New England University — 1% of income from government
- American International College — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Jean Appolon Expressions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nuestras Raices Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
- Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Human Service Forum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trustees of the Forbes Library — 0% of income from government
- Wilbraham and Monson Academy — 0% of income from government
- Historic Northampton Inc — 0% of income from government
- Westfield Athenaeum — 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.