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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$372k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $371,886 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $396,886 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 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.

$371,886
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAN CROP TECHNOLOGIES INC$371,886
02The need
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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 (FY21–22, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY DBA SQUARE ONE: $25k → 17%MAKE-IT-SPRINGFIELD: $13k → 17%CHILDREN'S STUDY HOME INC: $25k → 17%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 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.

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Developspringfield Corporation

To aid in the speedy and orderly development or redevelopment of property in the city of springfield, including but not limited to unused, underused or undeveloped areas, and in the development, operation, and management of facilities and…

Community Improvement
2
Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to foster a prosperous community by strengthening, representing, and promoting business while adhering to our values - model excellence, embody innovation, practice stewardship, demonstrate integrity, and deliver a welcoming…

Community Improvement
3
Springfield Business Development Corporation

To provide a continued revenue source for the chamber's economic development program; assisting business and industry and attracting new business and industry to the springfield region.

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4
Downtown Springfield Inc

To help make downtown springfield an ideal place to shop, work, visit, invest, and live.

Community Improvement
5
Worcester Business Development Corp

The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…

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The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce

Enhance our members' success and advance our economy

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Downtown Worcester Business Improvement

To develop, implement, manage, operate, enhance and promote the general welfare of the people within the designated downtown worcester business improvement district (the district), through activities, programs, and services to include but…

Community Improvement
8
Sbdc Inc

The mission is to assist businesses by offering special service, consultation, and low rate financing targeting businesses in springfield and clark co with 1-50 employees. we have a state mandate to provide services to support job growth…

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9
Waterbury Development Corporation

To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.

Community Improvement
10
Springfield Regional Development Corp

Regional Development Center To coordinate public and private efforts to bring new jobs and industry to the region; to rehabilitate former manufacturing facilities and put

Community Improvement
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Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc

To utilize and provide resources that assist people in need, to obtain economic stability, ulimately creating a better way of life. the organization provides services to the residents of the greater springfield area.

Education
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Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc and the most unlike its peers is Springfield School Volunteers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLEAN CROP TECHNOLOGIES INC — $371,886 · OtherCLEAN CROP TECHNOLOGIES INCWestover Metropolitan Development Corp — $119,461 · OtherWestover Metropolitan Development CorpGREATER SPRINGFIELD CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC — $97,328 · OtherGREATER SPRINGFIELD CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INCWESTMASS AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $83,833 · OtherWESTMASS AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONSPRINGFIELD REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $61,434 · OtherSPRINGFIELD REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC+2 more — $42,716 · Other+2 moreVALLEY VENTURE MENTORING SERVICE INC — $70,350 · Community ImprovementVALLEY VENTURE MENT…Springfield Business Improvement District Inc — $68,010 · Community ImprovementSpringfield Busines…AMHERST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC — $37,825 · Community ImprovementAMHERST BUSINESS IM…SPRINGFIELD CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP INC ATTN KAREN FINN — $18,499 · Community ImprovementSPRINGFIELD CULTURA…SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesHELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMake-It Springfield Inc — $12,547 · Human ServicesHOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $34,650 · Housing & ShelterFUTUREWORKS INC D/B/A MASSHIRE SPRINGFIELD CAREER C — $25,000 · EmploymentSPRINGFIELD SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS INC — $25,000 · Education
Other$776,658Community Improvement$194,684Human Services$62,547Housing & Shelter$34,650Employment$25,000Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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.

Community Foundation …Berkshire Bank Founda…The Beveridge Family …Edc 413works IncAmerican Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts 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.

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no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Westmass Area Development Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • Holyoke-Chicopee-Springfield Head Start Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Springfield Day Nursery Corporation — 61% of income from government
  • Helix Human Services Inc — 56% of income from government
  • Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Springfield Cultural Partnership Inc Attn Karen Finn — 31% of income from government
  • Westover Metropolitan Development Corp — 16% of income from government
  • Make-It Springfield Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Futureworks Inc D/B/a Masshire Springfield Career C — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst Business Improvement District Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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