Massachusetts · Public charity
Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc
Mcan is a faith and values organizing group focused on people, power, and change. We prioritize those closest to the issues and create transformational experiences that allow people to advocate for themselves.
- $281k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $275k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $235k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $100k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $109k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $213k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $157k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $190k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $285k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Interfaith Action of Se Ma | $471,397 | 8 | 63% |
| Pioneer Valley Project Inc | $289,000 | 8 | 28% |
| Brockton Interfaith Community Inc | $273,281 | 8 | 38% |
| Worcester Interfaith Inc | $154,435 | 4 | 45% |
| Essex County Community Organization | $99,124 | 4 | 11% |
| Berkshire Interfaith Organizing Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 43% |
| Worcester Interfaith | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Raise Up Massachusetts 2022 | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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: Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc · Third Sector New England Inc
How this is measured
Compare Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc?
Find your warmest path to Massachusetts Communities Action Network 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.
About Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc
- How much does Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc give?
- Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $275,000, out of $281,009 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (32%), Religion (31%), Community Improvement (29%).
- Who are Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Interfaith Action of Se Ma ($471k), Pioneer Valley Project Inc ($289k), Brockton Interfaith Community Inc ($273k).
- Does Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc, Third Sector New England Inc.
- Where is Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc based?
- Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc is based in MA.
Play a game based on Massachusetts Communities Action Network’s filings →