How much did GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE grant in FY2024?

GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE reported 9 grants totaling $197,746 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE based?

GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE is based in MA.

GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE

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· Public charity

GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE

To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region.

$198k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$40k

Largest

01What you fund

0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$526kHuman Services$154kFood & Nutrition$126kCivil Rights$75kYouth Development$55kHousing & Shelter$53kEducation$50kReligion$11kEnvironment$10kOther$381k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

studentsnantransportationtraingroupestablisheducators

2020

assessmentcovidresidentialaddictionaccessfood

2021

awardsheltersexual assaultchh committedcommitted creatingboston medicalhealing

2022

awardrespectportuguesevoicereduceequalityteamwork catalyst

2023

criticaldailyliveensureadvisoryaddresshousing

2024

vapecambodianfree

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$12,400

Median grant

States reached

$543k

Total assets

Largest grants

TOWN OF WESTFORD$40,000
LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$25,000
LOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS$20,300
CAMBODIAN MUTUTAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION$18,865
YMCA$12,400
TUFTS-LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION$10,000
TOWN OF CHELMSFORD$10,000
CHALLENGE UNLIMITED AT IRONESTONE FARM$10,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 19 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%

+108%

Still filing today

79%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

LH
LOWELL HOUSE INC
5× · 2018–2022 · $224k · revenue +216%
LC
LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
4× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +43%
MC
MILL CITY GROWS
6× · 2018–2023 · $89k · revenue +104%

Funded once

CE
CASA ESPERANZAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue +149%
CT
CHELMSFORD- TOWN OF (SENIOR CENTER)
one grant, 2022 · $50k
THRIVE (FISCAL SPONSOR CTI)graduated
one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +108%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Lowell Area Housing Inc

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Dothouse Health Inc

To provide affordable, accessible, and exceptional health care and other essential services in an environment that respects our consumers, staff and diverse community; be a leading force for change in the health, economic, and social…

Health

Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter

Center for Living & Working Inc

To provide a broad range of independent living services to people with disabilities.

Human Services

Greater Lowell Health Alliance

To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region.

Health

Community Counseling of Bristol County

To develop and deliver compassionate, responsive and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the prevention, education, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery needs of those in our community.

Health

Massachusetts Affordable Housing

Massachusetts affordable housing alliance, inc. (maha) breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…

Health

Massachusetts Housing Investment

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…

Housing & Shelter

Lynn Community Health Center

Improve access to health services in the community of lynn, massachusetts and to support the mission of lynn community health center (continued on schedule o)which is to provide comprehensive health care of the highest quality for everyone…

Health

Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership

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.

Housing & Shelter

Lynn Community Health Inc

To provide comprehensive healthcare of the highest quality for everyone in the greater lynn community regardless of ability to pay.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowell Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Douglas a Thom Clinic Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/37

the rest of the field

933/10,525

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.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

27/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$526,372Other$452,122Human Services$154,406Food & Nutrition$125,550Civil Rights$75,000Youth Development$55,000Housing & Shelter$53,095

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.

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.

Greater Lowell Community FoundationMA63.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lowell Community Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · The Lowell General Hospital · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Trustees of the Ayer Home

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 organisation GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +89% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 352374752 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Greater Lowell Health Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Greater Lowell Health Alliance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Lowell Health Alliance?

More from the funding graph

GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Lowell Health Alliance?

More from the funding graph