· Public charity
Just-A-Start Corporation
To promote equity by creating access to stable housing and building pathways to economic opportunity.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE | $8,400 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND RECOVERY INC | $8,400 |
| BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC | $8,400 |
| CAMBRIDGE HOUSING AUTHORITY | $8,400 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE INC | $8,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCAMBRIDGE HOUSING AUTHORITY2× · 2022–2023 · $19k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE2× · 2022–2023 · $19k · revenue +17%
- BHBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC2× · 2022–2023 · $17k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- RCRINDGE COMMONS NORTH SUPPORT CORPORATION2× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M
- BHBunker Hill Community College3× · 2017–2019 · $27k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
4 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. 4 of the 7 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Just-A-Start Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Just-A-Start Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridges Homeward Inc: 88% of income from government
- Community Action Agency of Somerville: 72% of income from government
- Institute for Health and Recovery Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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