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Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc

Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.

$5.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$729k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Crime & Legal$20MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$407kEducation$37k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
  • $250k+12 grants · $5.4M
$409,215
Median grant
1
States reached
$661k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County$729,217
Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County$664,217
Middlesex Children's Advocacy Center$484,217
Plymouth County Children's Advocacy Center$424,217
Children's Advocacy Center of Worcester County$419,217
Berkshire County Kid's Place$409,217
Children's Cove The Cape and Islands CAC$409,215
Norfolk District Attorney$389,217
Eastern District Attorney's Office$389,217
Children's Advocacy Center of Hampshire County$369,412
Franklin County and North Quabbin Area CAC$365,009
Baystate Family Advocacy Center$330,000
Hampden County District Attorney's Office$79,093
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 (FY17–22, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORFOLK ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $115k → 7%Norfolk Advocates for Children: $112k → 7%NORFOLK ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $57k → 7%NORFOLK ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $53k → 7%NORFOLK ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $35k → 7%NORFOLK ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $35k → 7%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 13 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +271% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$22M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+271%
+63%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +271% · 26% of their budget
  • BC
    BERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +121% · 38% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S COVE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue ×17 · 66% of their budget

Funded once

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue +63%

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
Adams County Children's Advocacy Center

To meet the needs of children and families in our community by providing a community based, child focused center that facilitates a compassionate multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, identification, investigation, prosecution and…

Crime & Legal
2
Bennington County Association Against Child Abuse

The bennington county association against child abuse, (dba bennington county child advocacy center and special investigations unit), is a multi-disciplinary team which strives to ensure children, families and adults involved in sexual…

Crime & Legal
3
Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Provide services for abused children

4
Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.

5
Children's Law Center of New Hampshire

To provide legal representation and social services advocacy to new hampshire low-income and underserved children across multiple legal contexts.

Crime & Legal
6
Childrens Advocacy Center for Child Abuse Assessment and Treatment

We provide children affected by violence and their families with services of support, forensic interviews, resources, and hope.

Crime & Legal
7
Children's Advocacy Center of the Coastal Bend

Nueces county childrens advocacy center is organized to provide a safe environment for sexual and physical child abuse investigations. there is a comprehensive program in order to make investigations and interviews less traumatic.

Crime & Legal
8
Child Advocacy Center

To combat child sexual and physical abuse by providing services to children and families in a safe enviroment.

Human Services
9
Children's Advocacy Center of Ottawa Countyinc

Providing advocacy services for child abuse victims.

Crime & Legal
10
Child Advocacy Center Inc

The primary service that the cac provides is a safe, child-friendly location for interviewing of children and coordination of referral programs when an allegation of sexual abuse and/or severe physical abuse has occurred.

Crime & Legal
11
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Children's Advocacy Center of Comal Coun

To provide a neutral, child-friendly agency community that facilitates a multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, detection, investigation, and treatment of child abuse.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Hampshire County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northeastern University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC — $2,540,308 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INCBERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC — $1,688,305 · Crime & LegalBERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION …FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S COVE INC — $1,654,182 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S COVE INCCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY INC — $1,510,184 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY INCCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF FRANKLIN AND NORTH QUABBIN INC — $1,476,221 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF FRANKLIN AND NORTH QUAB…JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC — $1,465,832 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INCCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $6,539,202 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGEChildrens Advocacy Center of BC — $1,209,408 · OtherChildrens Advocacy Center of BCPlymouth County Children's Advocacy Center — $989,094 · OtherPlymouth County Children's Advocacy CenterUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $863,307 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSEssex Children's Advocacy Center — $344,897 · OtherBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,200,197 · HealthNorfolk Advocates for Children Inc — $406,521 · Human ServicesNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $36,684 · Education
Crime & Legal$10,335,032Other$9,945,908Health$1,200,197Human Services$406,521Education$36,684

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 budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC — $2,540,308 over 9y, 26% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC — $1,688,305 over 9y, 38% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S COVE INC — $1,654,182 over 9y, 66% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY INC — $1,510,184 over 9y, 54% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF FRANKLIN AND NORTH QUABBIN INC — $1,476,221 over 9y, 44% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC — $1,465,832 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center of BC — $1,209,408 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,200,197 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorfolk Advocates for Children Inc — $406,521 over 6y, 50% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $36,684 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S COVE INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF FRANKLIN AND NORTH QUABBIN INC
  • Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center of BC
  • Who funds BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds Norfolk Advocates for Children Inc
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

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.

National Children's Alliance IncDC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Children's Alliance Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Children'S Alliance 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 20%
  • Norfolk Advocates for Children Inc100% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc48% of income from government
  • Children's Advocacy Center of Franklin and North Quabbin Inc20% of income from government
  • Baystate Medical Center Inc9% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc?

Find your warmest path to Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 14 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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