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Massachusetts Construction Advancement Program at a glance

· Public charity

Massachusetts Construction Advancement Program

To address industry wide issues affecting the massachusetts contruction industry for the mutual benefit of property owners, the public, contractors and their employees.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Employment$6.8MYouth Development$198kEducation$95kHuman Services$25k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
$1,443,899
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA$1,500,965
BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS ASSOC$1,443,899
BUILDING PATHWAYS$80,000
CAREPACKS INC$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA: $1.5M → 7%NEW ENGLAND CARPENTERS TRAINING FUND: $11k → 11%BUILDING PATHWAYS: $80k → 16%ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA: $1.3M → 7%BUILDING PATHWAYS: $68k → 16%ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA: $485k → 7%BUILDING PATHWAYS: $50k → 16%ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA: $75k → 7%YOUTHBUILD BOSTON: $50k → 16%ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA: $75k → 7%ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA: $75k → 7%CAREPACKS INC: $30k → 7%CAREPACKS INC: $25k → 7%BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS ASSOC: $1.4M → 7%BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS ASSOC: $1.2M → 7%BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS ASSOC: $408k → 7%TSG SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $65k → 7%BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYER'S ASSOC OF BOSTON: $39k → 7%BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYER'S ASSOC OF BOSTON: $31k → 7%BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYER'S ASSOC OF BOSTON: $26k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 4 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$7.0M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+67%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AG
    ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +45% · 58% of their budget
  • BT
    BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +123% · 48% of their budget
  • YB
    YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $198k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TS
    THOMAS S GUNNING SCHOLARSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +78% · 46% of their budget
  • BP
    BUILDING PATHWAYS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +67%
  • NA
    NORTH ATLANTIC STATES CARPENTERS TRAINING FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA INC: $3,515,218 · OtherASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA INCBUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST: $3,194,123 · OtherBUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST+1 more: $197,689 · OtherTHOMAS S GUNNING SCHOLARSHIP: $65,000 · EducationCAREPACKS: $55,000 · EducationBUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $50,000 · EmploymentNORTH ATLANTIC STATES CARPENTERS TRAINING FUND: $10,526 · Employment
Other$6,907,030Education$120,000Employment$60,526

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MA INC: $3,515,218 over 6y, 58% of budgetBUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST: $3,194,123 over 6y, 48% of budgetYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC: $197,689 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHOMAS S GUNNING SCHOLARSHIP: $65,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetCAREPACKS: $55,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetBUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNORTH ATLANTIC STATES CARPENTERS TRAINING FUND: $10,526 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Massachusetts Construction Advancement Program funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massachusetts Construction Advancement Program. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Building Pathways Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Carepacks: 18% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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