· Public charity
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc
Harvard pilgrim health care foundation supports harvard pilgrim health care, inc.'s mission to improve the quality and value of health care for the people and communities served.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 49 grants below total $2,543,147 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,577,837 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,034,690 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $822k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUFTS HEALTH PLAN FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| THE BASE | $226,000 |
| THE BOWLER-BARTLETT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ELDER SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY I NC | $190,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON | $165,000 |
| MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT INC | $100,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK | $77,650 |
| GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC | $70,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS | $60,350 |
| THE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT INC | $60,000 |
| COASTAL FOODSHED INC | $60,000 |
| MILL CITY GROWS INC | $31,000 |
| SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC | $30,500 |
| ST MARY'S NUTRITION CENTER | $30,000 |
| KENEY PARK SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT INC | $26,250 |
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 (FY17–21, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 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, 99% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 96% — 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 +49% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
158 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2021, 118 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $907k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC5× · 2017–2021 · $648k · revenue +54%
AGESPAN INC4× · 2018–2021 · $562k · revenue +106%- TBTHE BASEBALL INC3× · 2019–2021 · $534k · revenue +100%
Funded once
COMMUNITY CARE COOPERATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +163%- MMaineHealthgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $510k · revenue +80%
- SCSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +23%
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.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
Founded in 1973, bristol aging & wellness, inc. is a private non-profit corporation, designated as an aging services access point and an area agency on aging. bristol serves as the entry point for elder services in southeastern…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The John Merck Fund. 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.
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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
401 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. 401 of the 431 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Point32health Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community 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 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 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.
- Community Care Cooperative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Arc Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc — 100% of income from government
- Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc — 76% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- Aids Project Worcester Inc — 63% of income from government
- Riverside Industries Inc — 61% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Britain Roots Inc — 46% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Community Health & Wellness Center of Greater Torrington Inc — 39% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Keney Park Sustainability Project — 37% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- Waterford Country School Inc — 29% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- First Choice Health Centers Inc — 16% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc — 15% of income from government
- Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
- Chica Inc — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Metrohartford Alliance Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Southwest Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Health Council Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc — 0% of income from government
- The New England Council Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Marathon Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.