· Public charity
Knights of Columbus Massachusetts State Council Charity Fund
Charity fund
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEAST ARC | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $17,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC3× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +40%- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS2× · 2017–2018 · $35k
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- HOHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $64k · revenue +482%
- TATHE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $64k · revenue +39%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME INCone grant, 2024 · $54k · revenue +8%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
The arc of essex county provides advocacy and services empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to realize a lifetime of personal achievement and full partnership in the community.
To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.
Brockton area arc inc will work in partnership with and for the community to provide advocacy, information and direct services that offer new opportunities and choice for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and…
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.
To serve and advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and autism.
To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.
To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.
To empower and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. this organization will utilize all its resources to ensure that our individuals served, their families and all people with intellectual and…
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 27 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.
- Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds FACE Inc ↗
- Who funds FACE (FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Roessner Family Foundation Inc · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Imagine Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knights of Columbus Massachusetts State Council Charity Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knights of Columbus Massachusetts State Council Charity Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc: 78% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc: 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc: 66% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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