· Private foundation
Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of MASSACHUSETTS BANKERS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MBA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $44,000 |
| ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING | $5,500 |
| SPRINGWELL INC | $5,500 |
| FOLLOW MY STEPS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL | $5,500 |
| HOMELESS NOT HELPLESS | $5,500 |
| THE FLY INITIATIVE | $5,500 |
| SPRINGFIELD PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION | $5,500 |
| MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES | $5,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MASS | $5,500 |
| THE ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $5,500 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS | $5,500 |
| WE CAN CORPORATION | $5,500 |
| WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC | $5,500 |
| APPLEWILD SCHOOL | $5,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 17 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- MBMASSACHUSETTS BANKERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $29k · revenue +129% · 100% of their budget
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC3× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +275%
AGESPAN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +25%
Funded once
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +15%- LCLUDLOW COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SNSPRINGFIELD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICEone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
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.
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 promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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.
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…
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 mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Bankers Foundation. 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 35 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
242 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. 242 of the 323 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.
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BANKERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AGESPAN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN MA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF FRANKLIN AND NORTH QUABBIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGWELL INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds Gillys House Inc ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds LEO INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS NOT HOPELESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW MY STEPS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND ↗
- Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BANKERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund
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 Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable 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.
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plymouth — 100% of income from government
- Norfolk Advocates for Children Inc — 100% of income from government
- Berkshire County Arc Inc — 90% of income from government
- Seniorcare Inc — 82% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Portal to Hope — 81% of income from government
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Talking Information Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Associates for Human Services Inc — 64% of income from government
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Amplify Poc Cape Cod Inc — 51% of income from government
- Tle Center for Urban Entrepreneurship — 49% of income from government
- Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc — 47% of income from government
- Chelsea Restoration — 44% of income from government
- Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Walpole Community Food Pantry Inc — 37% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
- Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
- Hillcrest Educational Centers Inc — 21% of income from government
- Solutions at Work Inc — 20% of income from government
- Children's Advocacy Center of Franklin and North Quabbin Inc — 20% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 17% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hope House Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Shore Community Action Programs Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Watch Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
- Care Central Vna & Hospice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Berkshire Dream Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Urban Edge Housing Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Lowell Plan Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Somerville Community Corporation Inc — 1% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Louison House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc — 0% of income from government
- Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 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.
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