· Public charity
Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc
Mcan is a faith and values organizing group focused on people, power, and change.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION | $85,000 |
| PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT | $45,000 |
| WORCESTER INTERFAITH | $45,000 |
| BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY | $45,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $40,000 |
| BERKSHIRE INTERFAITH ORGANIZING | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Essex County Community Organization: 15% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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