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Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc

MassBudget is a leading think tank advancing equitable policy solutions that create an inclusive, thriving Commonwealth.

$389k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Community Improvement$1.9MCivil Rights$368kHuman Services$239kPublic Benefit$215kHealth$189kHousing & Shelter$43kReligion$40k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $369,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $389,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Massachusetts Communities Action Network$100,000
Third Sector New England$100,000
Boston Medical Center$24,000
Essex County Community Organization Inc$10,000
Pioneer Valley Project Inc$10,000
Worcester Interfaith$10,000
Mass Voter Education Network Inc$10,000
Prophetic Resistance Inc$10,000
Brockton Workers Alliance$10,000
Berkshire Interfaith Organizing Inc$10,000
United Interfaith Action of Southeast Massachusetts (UIA)$10,000
Merrimack Valley Project$10,000
YWCA of LowellLowell Alliance$10,000
Brockton Interfaith Association Inc$10,000
Resist Inc$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Quincy Asian Resources IncAsian CDC: $6k → 7%Berkshire Interfaith Organizing Inc: $15k → 12%Pioneer Valley Project Inc: $20k → 17%Brockton Workers Alliance: $15k → 8%Berkshire Interfaith Organizing Inc: $10k → 12%Pioneer Valley Project Inc: $15k → 17%YMCA of LowellLowell Alliance: $10k → 8%Pioneer Valley Project Inc: $10k → 17%YWCA of LowellLowell Alliance: $10k → 8%United Interfaith Action of Southeast Massachusetts (UIA): $15k → 11%Brockton Workers Alliance: $10k → 8%United Interfaith Action of Southeast Massachusetts (UIA): $10k → 11%Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association: $1k → 8%La Colaborativa Inc: $25k → 16%True Alliance Center Inc: $10k → 16%True Alliance Center Inc: $9k → 16%Ayni Institute IncNUBE: $15k → 16%Ayni Institute IncNUBE: $15k → 16%Brazilian Worker CenterInc: $33k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop: $15k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop: $15k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 20 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$2.7M
$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+43%

Still filing today

95%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHousing & ShelterHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $597k · revenue +31%
  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $189k · revenue +38%
  • PV
    PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BB
    BOSTON BLACK COVID-19 COALITION CO MASSVOTE
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • BW
    Brazilian Worker Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +84%
  • LA COLABORATIVA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +255%

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
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
3
Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc

Our mission is to organize and mobilize Unitarian Universalists in Massachusetts to control oppression. We provide pathways towards justice and identify opportunities in which we can live our values.

Religion
4
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

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.

Education
5
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
6
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
7
Massachusetts Women of Color Network Inc

The Massachusetts Women of Color Network supports the leadership and sustainment of women of color working in the sexual and domestic violence movement in Massachusetts

Social Science
8
Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Ma

Help southeast asians in central massachusetts become productive and successful citizens while continuing to maintain their unique cultural identity, and promoting and encouraging civic engagement.

Human Services
9
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
10
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc

Engage workers and allies in promoting safe, healthy working conditions through education, advocacy and coalition-building.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
12
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berkshire Interfaith Organizing Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional & Industry Ass…Community Access TelevisionLand and Water ConservationSchool Support FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%48%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr14%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%56%35–55yr14%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
11%
2,525/23,716

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

30 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. 30 of the 35 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $1,299,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INCTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $597,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC+4 more — $127,700 · Community Improvement+4 morePIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER VA…Brazilian Worker Center Inc — $32,500 · Human ServicesBrazilian …AYNI INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTI…ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMER…BERKSHIRE INTERFAITH ORGANIZING INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE …UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SE MA — $25,000 · Human ServicesUNITED INT…LA COLABORATIVA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABOR…BROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBROCKTON W…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF L — $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOME…TRUE ALLIANCE CENTER INC — $19,000 · Human ServicesTRUE ALLIA…+2 more — $6,760 · Human ServicesTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $133,525 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $22,000 · Civil RightsMassachusetts Voter Education Network Inc — $20,000 · Civil RightsNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $15,800 · Civil RightsBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $189,300 · HealthResist Inc — $57,000 · OtherBOSTON BLACK COVID-19 COALITION CO MASSVOTE — $45,000 · OtherUnited Interfaith Action of Southeast Massachusetts (UIA) — $12,400 · OtherProphetic Resistance Inc — $10,000 · OtherLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $8,000 · OtherYMCA of LowellLowell Alliance — $7,000 · OtherBROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC — $40,000 · OtherJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC — $10,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $19,500 · Housing & ShelterMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $44,500 · Public Benefit
Community Improvement$2,023,700Human Services$283,260Civil Rights$191,325Health$189,300Other$189,400Housing & Shelter$52,000Public Benefit$44,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $1,299,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $597,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $189,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $133,525 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWORCESTER INTERFAITH INC — $59,700 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC — $45,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $44,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $33,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBrazilian Worker Center Inc — $32,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE INTERFAITH ORGANIZING INC — $25,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetUNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SE MA — $25,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMassachusetts Voter Education Network Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF L — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $19,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE ALLIANCE CENTER INC — $19,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $15,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC — $5,760 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Third Sector New Engl…Boston Foundation IncThe Hyams Foundation …Philanthropy Massachu…Herman and Frieda L M…Amalgamated Charitabl…Eastern Bank Foundati…Health Resources in A…Haymarket People's Fu…Barr FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…Combined Jewish Phila…
Third Sector New England IncMA50.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Third Sector New England Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc · Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc — 97% of income from government
  • Young Women's Christian Association of L — 53% of income from government
  • Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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