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Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc

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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$604kHuman Services$164kFood & Nutrition$141kHousing & Shelter$78kCivil Rights$75kYouth Development$70kEducation$64kReligion$11kEnvironment$10kOther$418k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $156,565 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $197,746 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,181 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.

$12,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$543k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TOWN OF CHELMSFORD$10,000
CHALLENGE UNLIMITED AT IRONESTONE FARM$10,000
THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Family Services of the Merrimack Valley: $10k → 10%CLARENDON EARLY EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $14k → 10%CLARENDON EARLY EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $14k → 10%THRIVE (FISCAL SPONSOR CTI): $25k → 8%YWCA OF LOWELL: $22k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $20k → 8%YMCA: $12k → 8%AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS (MAPS): $23k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUTAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $19k → 8%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 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 21 repeat orgs$458k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
20

Total granted

$1.2M
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+29%

Still filing today

76%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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
    6× · 2017–2022 · $249k · revenue +278%
  • LC
    LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +78%
  • MC
    MILL CITY GROWS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $104k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • CE
    CASA ESPERANZA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue +29%
  • CT
    CHELMSFORD- TOWN OF (SENIOR CENTER)
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • Community Teamwork Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +12%

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.

1
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
2
Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc

To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region. by raising awareness and providing resources for our communities, schools, civic and…

Health
3
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
4
Lowell Area Housing Inc Dba Schneider Manor
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5
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
6
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
7
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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
8
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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
9
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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10
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
11
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
12
The Well Ne

The Well's mission is to deliver real solutions in behavioral health through compassion, innovation, and collaboration. By building an inclusive community, we offer comprehensive treatment and resources to empower individuals of diverse…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowell Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is African Community Center of Lowell. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr12%40%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/41
the rest of the field
10%
1,072/10,521

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOWELL HOUSE INC — $249,213 · HealthLOWELL HOUSE INCLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $163,000 · HealthLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCCASA ESPERANZA INC — $59,309 · HealthCASA ESPERANZA INCPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $40,000 · HealthPHOENIX MULTISPORT INCELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $30,000 · HealthCENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC — $25,000 · HealthTHE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $22,850 · Health+2 more — $15,000 · HealthELIOT DAY CENTER (ELIOT CHURCH) — $77,100 · OtherELIOT DAY CENTER (ELIOT CHURCH)UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL — $57,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELLCHELMSFORD- TOWN OF (SENIOR CENTER) — $50,000 · OtherCHELMSFORD- TOWN OF (SENIOR CENTER…TOWN OF WESTFORD — $40,000 · OtherTOWN OF WESTFORDGREATER LOWELL REGIONAL VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — $38,000 · OtherGREATER LOWELL REGIONAL VOCATIONAL…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $25,000 · OtherCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC — $25,000 · OtherLOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $20,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherTEWKSBURY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $20,000 · OtherELLIE FUND INC — $45,000 · OtherELLIE FUND INC+9 more — $84,222 · Other+9 moreCommunity Teamwork Inc — $45,000 · Human ServicesCommunity T…GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA — $34,670 · Human ServicesGREATER LOW…CLARENDON EARLY EDUCATION SERVICES INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesCLARENDON E…MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC — $23,371 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSET…Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $18,865 · Human ServicesCambodian M…FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERV…+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesMILL CITY GROWS INC — $103,550 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY…MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $27,500 · Food & NutritionMERRIMACK…DWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $9,500 · Food & NutritionDWELLING …LOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $22,870 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $20,225 · Housing & ShelterINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL — $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$604,372Other$502,122Human Services$164,406Food & Nutrition$140,550Housing & Shelter$78,095Civil Rights$75,000Youth Development$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOWELL HOUSE INC — $249,213 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $163,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC — $103,550 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCASA ESPERANZA INC — $59,309 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Teamwork Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA — $34,670 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLARENDON EARLY EDUCATION SERVICES INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC — $23,371 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $22,870 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $22,850 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $20,225 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $18,865 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHISTORY UNERASED INC — $13,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetPLACE OF PROMISE INC — $10,650 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $9,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDOUGLAS A THOM CLINIC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Greater Lowell Commun…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Theodore Edson Parker…Salem Five Charitable…Health Resources in A…Richard K & Nancy L D…We Share A Common Thr…Aubert J Fay Charitab…Lowell Five Charitabl…The Battles Foundatio…The Saab Family Found…
Greater Lowell Community Foundation IncMA51× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Battles Foundation Inc · The Saab Family 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 Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Center for Hope & Healing Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Casa Esperanza Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Douglas a Thom Clinic Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Clarendon Early Education Services Inc — 25% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Dwelling House of Hope Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
  • History Unerased Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 45 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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