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· Private foundation
MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH DECISIONS INC
HEALTH CARE EDUCATION AND CONSULTATION.
$17k
Granted FY2024
1
Grants
1
Communities
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Health$40kArts & Culture$32kCrime & Legal$20kEducation$15kOther$54k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
issues
2019
see attached
2020
see attached
2021
see attached
2022
see attached
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$17,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$597k
Total assets
Largest grants
- GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE$17,300
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Tufts Medical Center Physicians
The tufts medical center physicians organization, inc. coordinates the administrative and billing activities for the group practices in their mission of providing quality health care services to patients of tufts medical center, inc. and…
Health
2
The University of Vermont Medical Center
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
Health
3
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Health
5
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At
As previously noted in this form 990, the mission of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. is to provide extraordinary healthcare services, where the patient comes first, supported by world-class…
Health
6
MaineHealth
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
Health
7
Medical Care of Boston Management Corp
Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…
Health
8
Hartford Hospital
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
Health
9
Northern Maine Medical Center
Acute care & long term care hospital and mental health services facility.
Health
10
Northeast Hospital Corporation
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
Health
11
Carle BroMenn Medical Center
Carle bromenn medical center's mission is to be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and service.
Health
12
Lexington Medical Center
To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Hearing & Deaf and the most unlike its peers is Boston Medical Center Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$53,660Health$40,302Arts & Culture$32,000Crime & Legal$20,000Education$15,000
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 NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUBLIC REPRESENTATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & DEAF SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN FOCUS ↗
- Who funds TELEHEALTH ACCESS FOR SENIORS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH DECISIONS 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Vermont Ethics Network Inc — 84% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ASIAN FOCUS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~153 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +76% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270167019 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ASIAN FOCUS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 153 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Massachusetts Health Decisions Inc?
Find your warmest path to Massachusetts Health Decisions Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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