· Public charity
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $963,214 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,230,839 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $267,625 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $932k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC NEWTON | $20,000 |
| PITI THEATRE COMPANY | $20,000 |
| DISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC | $20,000 |
| 826 BOSTON | $20,000 |
| ANDREA PATIO CONTRERAS | $20,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| AFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
| LANI ASUNCION LLC | $20,000 |
| TRANSLATE GENDER | $20,000 |
| THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| WILDFLOWER ALLIANCE (UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE WESTERN MASS TRAINING CONSOR | $20,000 |
| PRX INC | $20,000 |
| ANCESTRAL BRIDGES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LYNN MUSEUMLYNNARTS | $20,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM (OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA) | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k 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
- ACAFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC5× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +561%
- LALOCAL ACCESS4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +288% · 46% of their budget
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc4× · 2017–2023 · $79k · revenue +124%
Funded once
20 Summers Incgraduated2× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +119%- PFPORTER-PHELPS-HUNTINGTON FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $57k · revenue +15% · 33% of their budget
- MMMARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue +10%
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.
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
To collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community
To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.
Study, collect and preserve the history of Wayland, Massachusetts and its people: to preserve the building and the artifacts owned by the Society, and to disseminate information to promote the traditions and history or Wayland.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Northampton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chinese Economic Development Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
269 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL ACCESS ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUES TO GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds 20 Summers Inc ↗
- Who funds BAMS FEST INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-PHELPS-HUNTINGTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Cambridge Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CASA DOS ACORES DA NOVA INGLATERRA INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN AWARENESS INC ↗
- Who funds ROYALL HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Everyday Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BECKET ATHENAEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds RAISING MULTICULTURAL KIDS ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL BLACK COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Roxbury Cultural District Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Comic Arts Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds Berkshire Pride Inc ↗
- Who funds THE THOREAU SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHIRLEY-EUSTIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NUEVA ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL NATURAL HISTORY & LIBRARY SOC OF NATICK INC ↗
- Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc
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 Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy 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.
- Captain Forbes House Museum — 100% of income from government
- Old North Illuminated Inc — 94% of income from government
- Disability Policy Consortium Inc — 81% of income from government
- Newton Historical Society Inc — 62% of income from government
- Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc — 55% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Arlington Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Roxbury Cultural District Inc — 48% of income from government
- Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Boston Home Inc — 45% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Multicultural Aids Coalition Inc — 41% of income from government
- The Performance Project Inc — 40% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- Primary Source Inc — 23% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Bristol Black Collective — 21% of income from government
- The Flavor Continues Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc — 13% of income from government
- Chuang Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Blues to Green Inc — 12% of income from government
- West Medford Community Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Angkor Dance Troupe Inc — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Pride Inc — 10% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- African Cultural Services Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raising Multicultural Kids — 8% of income from government
- Theatre Espresso Incorporated — 8% of income from government
- Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Common Wealth Mural Collaborative — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Guerilla Opera Inc — 7% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Wistariahurst Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Andover Historical Society — 3% of income from government
- Local Access — 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- History Project Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
- 20 Summers Inc — 2% of income from government
- The New Dance Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Sheffield Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Gore Place Society — 2% of income from government
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- ME2 Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Immigrant City Archives — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Paul Revere Memorial Association — 1% of income from government
- Becket Athenaeum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- The Village Afrocentric Cultural Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nueva Esperanza Inc — 1% of income from government
- Old Colony Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- Wellfleet Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Shirley-Eustis House Association — 0% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Bams Fest Inc — 0% of income from government
- Transhealth Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- The Network for Social Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Historic Northampton Inc — 0% of income from government
- Westfield Athenaeum — 0% 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.