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Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$372k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $371,886, the rows itemized in this filing. The $396,886 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce

Enhance our members' success and advance our economy

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6
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
7
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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8
Waterbury Development Corporation

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

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

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

Community Improvement
11
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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12
Springfield Performing Arts Development Corp

To consistently deliver high quality professional entertainment for all the citizens of western massachusetts thereby enhancing the quality of each life, increasing awareness and patronage of the performing arts, and actively contributing…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 …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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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