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Mass Hospital Research & Educational Association Inc

To advance the health of individuals and communities by serving as the leading voice for all massachusetts hospitals and healthcare systems and to help them provide high quality, cost-effective and equitable patient care.

$1.2M
Granted FY2021
38
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2021.

Health$1.4MOther$738k
02FY2021 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k37 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$580k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY HEYWOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$60,000
FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL$30,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$30,000
FALMOUTH HOSPITAL$30,000
EMERSON HOSPITAL INC$30,000
UMASS MEMORIAL MARLBOROUGH HOSPITAL$30,000
METROWEST MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$30,000
UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
MELROSEWAKEFIELD HEALTHCARE$30,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)$30,000
ANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL$30,000
LAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC$30,000
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHALLIANCE-CLINTON HOSPITAL$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $30k → 6%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-NEEDHAM: $30k → 7%FALMOUTH HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%SIGNATURE HEALTHCARE BROCKTON HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%NEWTON-WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $16k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%ANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL: $30k → 10%UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 11%STURDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 11%FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $30k → 12%BAYSTATE FRANKLIN MEDICAL CENTER: $16k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL): $30k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $30k → 17%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $16k → 6%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-NEEDHAM: $16k → 7%FALMOUTH HOSPITAL: $16k → 8%SIGNATURE HEALTHCARE BROCKTON HOSPITAL: $16k → 8%WINCHESTER HOSPITAL PART OF BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH: $30k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL: $16k → 8%ANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL: $16k → 10%ADCARE HOSPITAL: $30k → 11%STURDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $16k → 11%BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 12%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $16k → 17%CURAHEALTH STOUGHTON LLC: $30k → 7%CAPE CODE HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%WINCHESTER HOSPITAL PART OF BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH: $16k → 8%NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION (DBA BEVERLY HOSPITAL): $30k → 10%UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $16k → 11%SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $30k → 11%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-MILTON: $30k → 7%EMERSON HOSPITAL INC: $30k → 8%HARRINGTON HOSPITAL: $30k → 11%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 16%MELROSEWAKEFIELD HEALTHCARE: $30k → 8%HENRY HEYWOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $60k → 11%HEBREW REHABILITATION CENTER: $30k → 16%UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHALLIANCE-CLINTON HOSPITAL: $30k → 11%UMASS MEMORIAL MARLBOROUGH HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $30k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $30k → 16%MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%MILFORD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 11%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 16%NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S FAULKNER HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%THE FRANCISCAN HOSPTIAL FOR CHILDREN INC: $30k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 37 repeat orgs$394k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
25

Total granted

$1.8M
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

65%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • TS
    THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $92k · revenue +25%
  • HH
    Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital
    2× · 2020–2021 · $76k · revenue +29%
  • NH
    NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $46k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TM
    TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $16k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care

Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…

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2
Medical Care of Boston Management Corp

Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…

Health
3
Beth Israel Lahey Health Specialty Care F/K/a Northeast Medical Practice

Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high quality medical care to the patients of northeast hospital corporation (beverly hospital, addison gilbert hospital…

Health
4
Lahey Clinic Inc

Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…

Health
5
Lahey Clinic Foundation Inc

The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic (lc) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc), enabling lhmc and lc to provide superior health care leading to…

Health
6
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
7
Seacoast Affiliated Group Practice Inc

Seacoast affiliated group practice (sagp) is a network of community-based physicians affiliated with anna jaques hospital (ajh or hospital). these practices are committed to improving the health of the communities served by ajh and sagp by…

Health
8
Core Physicians Llc

The mission of core physicians is to improve the health of the community. this mission is principally accomplished through the provision of health services and information to the community within the resources available. as a…

Health
9
Northeast Behavioral Health Corporation

The mission of northeast behavioral health corporation d/b/a beth israel lahey health behavioral services' (bilhbs) is to provide personal, compassionate, state-of-the-art, integrated behavioral healthcare that makes a difference in the…

Health
10
Northeast Professional Registry of Nurses

Northeast professional registry of nurses, d/b/a beth israel lahey health at home (nprn or bilh at home), offers support to patients following a hospital stay, during recovery, or to assist with end-of-life needs, as close to home as can…

Health
11
Lahey Health Shared Services Inc

The purpose of lahey health shared services (lhss) is to provide centralized administrative services to its affiliated entities which, in turn, supports the healthcare missions of affiliates within the beth israel lahey health system of…

Health
12
Exeter Hospital Inc

The mission of the exeter hospital inc. (ehi or hospital) is committed to improving the health of the communities served by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect for patient rights in a cost…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baystate Noble Hospital Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr14%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr14%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
11%
3,792/33,903

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
36/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $91,500 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENHenry Heywood Memorial Hospital — $75,750 · Health+36 more — $1,256,893 · Health+36 moreMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $45,750 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC — $45,750 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC — $45,750 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE INCUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC — $45,750 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INCMETROWEST MEDICAL CENTER — $45,750 · OtherMETROWEST MEDICAL CENTERCAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC — $45,750 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $45,750 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDADCARE HOSPITAL — $45,750 · OtherADCARE HOSPITALCURAHEALTH STOUGHTON LLC — $45,750 · OtherCURAHEALTH STOUGHTON LLCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $45,750 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC — $45,750 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $45,657 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+12 more — $189,000 · Other+12 more
Health$1,424,143Other$737,907

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $91,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHenry Heywood Memorial Hospital — $75,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH - MILFORD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER HOSPITAL — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - MILTON — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Rehabilitation Center — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTURDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMELROSEWAKEFIELD HEALTHCARE INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrockton Hospital Inc — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC — $45,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarrington Memorial Hospital Inc — $45,643 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MERCY HOSPITAL INC — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAthol Memorial Hospital — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-PLYMOUTH INC — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH INC — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE NOBLE HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence General Hospital — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $15,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $15,750 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBAYSTATE WING HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolyoke Medical Center Inc — $15,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Amelia Peabody Charit…Mass General Brigham …Boston Foundation IncMass General Brigham …Boston Medical Center…Combined Jewish Phila…American Cancer Socie…Trustees of Tufts Col…Health Resources in A…Citizens Charitable F…Bond Bros Foundation …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA25.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Boston Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated · Boston Medical Center Corporation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Trustees of Tufts College · Health Resources in Action Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Bond Bros Foundation Inc

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 Mass Hospital Research & Educational Association 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hebrew Rehabilitation Center — 53% of income from government
  • Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Melrosewakefield Healthcare Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Holyoke Medical Center Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Athol Memorial Hospital — 13% of income from government
  • Brockton Hospital Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Baystate Wing Hospital Corporation — 6% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Baystate Noble Hospital Corporation — 5% of income from government
  • The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
  • Sturdy Memorial Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Northeast Hospital Corporation — 5% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
  • Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Anna Jaques Hospital Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton — 2% of income from government
  • Winchester Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
  • South Shore Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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