· Public charity
Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc
Mcan is a faith and values organizing group focused on people, power, and change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $275,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $281,009 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,009 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION | $85,000 |
| WORCESTER INTERFAITH | $45,000 |
| PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT | $45,000 |
| BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY | $45,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $40,000 |
| BERKSHIRE INTERFAITH ORGANIZING | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $795k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 ACTION OF SE MA8× · 2018–2025 · $471k · revenue +171% · 63% of their budget
- PVPIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $289k · revenue +182% · 28% of their budget
BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $273k · revenue +736% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- RURAISE UP MASSACHUSETTS 2022one grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
Our mission is to organize and mobilize Unitarian Universalists in Massachusetts to control oppression. We provide pathways towards justice and identify opportunities in which we can live our values.
Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.
MassHire creates and sustains powerful connections between businesses and job seekers through a statewide network of employment professionals.
Vermont interfaith action is a faith-based, grassroots coalition of congregations that transforms ordinary people into empowered and engaged citizens. our goal is to create the hope, power, knowledge, and political will needed to make…
Coalition that has come together to organize and advocate for justice for the people and places of vermonts northeast kingdom.
Our mission is to create a viable business atmosphere that will attract compatible and diverse sustainable economic development opportunities.
To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
To connect, inform and engage christians to drastically impact unacceptable realities in boston. we do this by listening, innovating, and building what god is already doing
Easton area neighborhood centers, inc. (eanc) is committed to providing an array of services that enhance the quality of life for low- and moderate-income residents of northampton county. through innovative programming, educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brockton Interfaith Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berkshire Interfaith Organizing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 OF SE MA ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER INTERFAITH INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INTERFAITH ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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.
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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 Communities Action Network 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.
- Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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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