Massachusetts · Public charity
Massachusetts Charitable Society
The purpose of the society is to assist any member in need of assistance , and after death of a member to assist his widow and children in need; to accumulate a fund and to use the income therefrom for the purpose of rendering such assistance. After making provisions for the foregoing, any balance of net income may be used for such…
- $442k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Massachusetts Charitable Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $442k | 76% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $360k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $308k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $195k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $180k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $223k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $209k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partakers Inc | $62,250 | 3 | 13% |
| YMCA of the North Shore Inc | $49,596 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of St Stephen's Youth Programs Inc | $42,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Tech Goes Home Incorporated | $42,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $42,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Cotting School Inc | $42,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Bethany Hill Place | $41,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tenacity Inc | $41,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Squashbusters Inc | $40,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Nashoba Learning Group Inc | $40,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Massachusetts Charitable Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation
How this is measured
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About Massachusetts Charitable Society
- How much does Massachusetts Charitable Society give?
- Massachusetts Charitable Society reported 17 grants totaling $442,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Massachusetts Charitable Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (18%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Massachusetts Charitable Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Partakers Inc ($62k), YMCA of the North Shore Inc ($50k), Friends of St Stephen's Youth Programs Inc ($43k).
- Does Massachusetts Charitable Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Massachusetts Charitable Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Massachusetts Charitable Society based?
- Massachusetts Charitable Society is based in MA.
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