· Private foundation
Main Street Group Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS MORTGAGE BANKERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NEWVUE COMMUNITIES | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METROWEST | $10,000 |
| NEWVUE COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC | $10,000 |
| RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES WORCESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $9,225 |
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 (FY21–25, $217k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Main Street Group Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 96%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 23 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +131%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +94%
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- MPMARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $27k
- 4C495METROWEST CORRIDOR PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $15k
- CPCOOPERATIVE PRODUCTION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
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.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
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.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.
The medway village food pantry is a 100% choice pantry serving over 2,500 children, adults, and seniors in metrowest ma. each week clients may choose from a wide variety of items including fresh produce, eggs, cheese, shelf-stable foods,…
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
To participate in the promotion and development of affordable housing and economic development in the main south area of worcester, massachusetts.
Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.
How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 88 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 NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Addiction Referral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds KITS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MORTGAGE BANKERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN WORCESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds PROVISION MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
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: Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Madigan Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Main Street Group Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Main Street Group Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cooperative Production Inc: 93% of income from government
- Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc: 62% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc: 40% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc: 28% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: 18% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc: 12% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
- Metro Community Development Corporation: 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc: 1% of income from government
- Better Day Adult Social Day Program Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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