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Hanscom Fcu Charitable Foundation Inc
The Foundations focus is on providing donations marshalling both human and financial resources and providing assistance where we can do the most good for the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $346,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $355,350 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,500 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mass General Hospital | $136,850 |
| Fisher House of Boston | $75,000 |
| Mass Fallen Heroes | $25,000 |
| Blue Star Families | $25,000 |
| Lowell High School JROTC | $10,000 |
| Semper Fidelis Society | $10,000 |
| Veteran s Inc | $10,000 |
| NE Disabled Sports | $10,000 |
| Conventures Inc | $10,000 |
| US Army | $10,000 |
| Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center | $10,000 |
| Veteran Inc | $5,000 |
| Service Credit Union | $5,000 |
| South Boston Allied War Veterans Council | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Hanscom Fcu Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $144k · revenue +55%
- VIVETERANS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $129k · revenue +37%
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- MGMass General Hospitalone grant, 2024 · $253k
- VNVeterans Northeast Outreach Center Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -27%
- PHPURPLE HEART HOMES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +74%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide services to individuals who were disabled due to or during their military service.
The organization strives to promote and support massachusetts communities, charitable organizations, and individuals in achieving their goals with an interest in veterans of foreign wars.
The mission of the new england center and home for veterans (nechv) isto equip veterans who are facing or at-risk of homelessness with thetools for economic self-sufficiency and to provide them a path toachieve successful and dignified…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The purpose of the organization is fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, to…
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
To provide housing and supportive services to the veterans of the united states military
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
To provide wellness and wellbeing services to veterans and family members across all dimensions and empower them to achieve their full potential. provide outreach services to underserved areas veterans are in.
Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…
Our mission is to end veteran homelessness by creating both affordable communities and workforce housing communities with built-in veteran support services. Places where veterans can heal, grow, and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Service Credit Union Impact Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Veterans Northeast Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR BLOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND DISABLED SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Warbird National Golf Course & ↗
- Who funds SERVICE CREDIT UNION IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Hanscom Fcu Charitable Foundation 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.
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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