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Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc

To stimulate and facilitate a vigorous regional economy, encouraging and sustaining capital investment and quality job growth.

$397k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$372k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$371,886
Largest grant, FY2024
$371,886
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$372k100%
FY20226$160k100%
FY202110$587kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$587kFood & Nutrition$372kEducation$75kHousing & Shelter$35kEmployment$25kHuman Services$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestover Metropolitan Development Corp: $119,461 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGreater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc: $97,328 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetWestmass Area Development Corporation: $83,833 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetValley Venture Mentoring Service Inc: $70,350 over 1y, 25% of budgetSpringfield Business Improvement District Inc: $68,010 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSpringfield Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc: $61,434 over 1y, 14% of budgetAmherst Business Improvement District Inc: $37,825 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHome City Development Inc: $34,650 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFutureworks Inc D/B/A Masshire Springfield Career C: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSpringfield Day Nursery Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHelix Human Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpringfield School Volunteers Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHolyoke-Chicopee-Springfield Head Start Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpringfield Cultural Partnership Inc Attn Karen Finn: $18,499 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetEast of the River Chamber of Commerce: $17,716 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetMake-It Springfield Inc: $12,547 over 1y, 4.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Edc 413works Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc

How much does Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc give?
Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $371,886, out of $396,886 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (52%), Food & Nutrition (33%), Education (7%).
Who are Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Clean Crop Technologies Inc ($372k), Westover Metropolitan Development Corp ($119k), Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc ($97k).
Does Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc, The Beveridge Family Foundation.
Where is Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc based?
Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc is based in MA.

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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