· Private foundation
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
Its FY2024 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH BENNETT STREET SCHOOL | $31,962 |
| NORTHEAST ARC | $17,000 |
| THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $15,600 |
| OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE | $12,000 |
| JUST-A-START | $11,400 |
| GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUT | $10,709 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,089 |
| NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS | $10,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,007 |
| CHALLENGE UNLIMITED | $9,960 |
| DEARBORN ACADEMY | $8,482 |
| DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE | $8,334 |
| THE ELIOT SCHOOL | $8,055 |
| ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY | $7,207 |
| ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY & SHIPBUIL | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOLD STURBRIDGE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +44%
- TCTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +53%
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +167%
Funded once
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $37k · revenue +45%- KSKING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INCone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue -95%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
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How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 75 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 OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HIGASHI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS INN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Yawkey Foundation II
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. Bigger dots raise more.
- Employment Options Inc: 100% of income from government
- Road to Responsibility Inc: 92% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
- New England Village Inc: 68% of income from government
- The May Institute Inc: 47% of income from government
- The Boston Home Inc: 45% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc: 41% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc: 20% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc: 18% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: 16% of income from government
- Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc: 13% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc: 12% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc: 5% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
- Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc: 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- Paul Revere Memorial Association: 1% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf: 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc: 0% of income from government
- Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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