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MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK
Mcan is a faith and values organizing effort with a racial and economic justice lens.
$123k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Human Services$780kReligion$301kCommunity Improvement$244kPhilanthropy$96kOther$75k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
dorchesterneighborhoodsbusinessesbuild
2020
—
2021
—
2022
worcester interfaithregrantessexachievedmanagingdonorsstrengthening
2023
regrantessex
2024
regrantessex
2025
regrantessex
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION$50,000
- BERKSHIRE INTERFAITH ORGANIZING$20,000
- PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT$17,500
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$17,500
- BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY$12,500
02The need
04
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 (FY18–24, $780k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 8 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
1
Total granted
$1.5M
$5k
Still filing today
88%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionPhilanthropyOther
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
- UIUNITED INTERFAITH ACTION7× · 2018–2024 · $461k · revenue +85% · 63% of their budget
BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY7× · 2018–2024 · $301k · revenue +1088% · 38% of their budget- PVPIONEER VALLEY PROJECT'7× · 2018–2024 · $299k · revenue +182% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- RURAISE UP MAone grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Bristol Community Prayer Breakfast
Religion
2
Greater Boston Council On
Philanthropy
3
Dorchester County Historical
Operate and maintain museum dedicated to history and culture of surrounding community. facility available for display of owned and on loan historically significant artifacts, art and collectibles.
Arts & Culture
4
Dorchester Economic Development Corporat
Dorchester county economic development's mission is to create an environment that supports new business growth and retention enabling companies to succeed for generations. in addition, we work to strengthen and prepare our community for…
Community Improvement
5
Essex County Industrial Development
Our mission is to create a viable business atmosphere that will attract compatible and diverse sustainable economic development opportunities.
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6
Build-Building a United Inter-Faith Lexington Through Direct-Action
To build a self-sustaining interracial proactive organization rooted in religious congregations and capable of powerfully addressing community problems in the greater Lexington area.
Religion
7
South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc
Provider of day care, fuel/energy assistance, shelter, food, & professional assistance.
Human Services
8
Interfaith Community Outreach Inc
Interfaith community outreach "provides assistance to individuals and families facing a temporary emergency crisis in dare and currituck counties". our vision is bridging the gap: where no one will face an emergency crisis alone.…
Human Services
9
Northeast Kingdom Organizing
Coalition that has come together to organize and advocate for justice for the people and places of vermonts northeast kingdom.
Community Improvement
10
The Rhode Island Organizing Project
The organization's mission is to focus experience, faith perspective and resources on issues of neighborhood concern.
Community Improvement
11
Broward Organized Leaders Doing Justice
BOLD Justice is a congregation based community organization whose purpose is to powerfully address community problems in Broward County through a self-sustaining, interfaith, interracial organization rooted in religious congregations.
Civil Rights
12
Durham Congregations in Action
Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brockton Interfaith Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dorchester Bay Economic Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$780,397Religion$300,781Community Improvement$243,559Philanthropy$95,500Other$75,000
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 UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT' ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER BAY EDC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INTERFAITH ORGANIZING ↗
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.
Massachusetts Budget and Policy CenterMA18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center · Third Sector New England Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 organisation MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +85% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 311585685 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 63% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Massachusetts Communities Action Network?
Find your warmest path to Massachusetts Communities Action Network through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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