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Massachusetts · Public charity

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

$20M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 56%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $165,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $5,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 38; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 23
Total assets, FY2024: $1.1B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	49	$19M	53%
FY2023	25	$6.5M	56%
FY2022	18	$6.2M	39%
FY2021	19	$7.9M	42%
FY2020	38	$5.2M	84%
FY2019	20	$5.5M	95%
FY2018	1	$186k	0%
FY2017	1	$204k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$23MEducation$16MYouth Development$12MEnvironment$3.5MArts & Culture$1.1MCommunity Improvement$500kHuman Services$377kInternational$325kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Jobs for the Future Inc	$7,375,000	4	5%
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship	$6,973,985	5	30%
The National Mentoring Partnership Inc	$3,100,000	3	12%
The Big Picture Company	$2,535,000	5	11%
Rodel Charitable Foundation - De	$2,199,998	4	12%
Cape Cod Community College	$1,800,000	1	n/a
US Chamber of Commerce Foundation	$1,500,000	3	2%
New Profit Inc	$1,500,000	3	2%
Skills for Rhode Island's Future	$1,500,000	3	14%
Cajon Valley Union School District	$1,203,046	1	n/a

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All grantees of Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Jobs for the Future Inc	$7,375,000	4	5%
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship	$6,973,985	5	30%
The National Mentoring Partnership Inc	$3,100,000	3	12%
The Big Picture Company	$2,535,000	5	11%
Rodel Charitable Foundation - De	$2,199,998	4	12%
Cape Cod Community College	$1,800,000	1	n/a
US Chamber of Commerce Foundation	$1,500,000	3	2%
New Profit Inc	$1,500,000	3	2%
Skills for Rhode Island's Future	$1,500,000	3	14%
Cajon Valley Union School District	$1,203,046	1	n/a
Coalition for Career Development Center	$1,180,000	4	65%
Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area	$1,019,945	5	5%
Naf	$800,000	2	2%
Citizen Schools Inc	$750,000	1	8%
America Succeeds	$700,000	3	23%
Caps Network Inc	$672,000	2	40%
Mendon-Upton Regional School District	$604,230	2	n/a
Teachers College Columbia University	$600,000	2	0%
Gps Education Partners Inc	$600,000	2	6%
Apprentice Learning Inc	$500,000	3	47%
The Imagine Justice Society	$500,000	1	n/a
Axim Collaborative Inc	$500,000	1	1%
Sparknc	$500,000	1	7%
Icouldbeorg Inc	$440,000	2	22%
Connected the National Center for College and Career	$400,000	2	6%
Center for Black Educator Development	$400,000	2	2%
America Achieves Inc	$400,000	1	2%
Big Thought	$375,000	1	3%
National Rural Education Association	$360,250	1	n/a
CommunityShare	$350,000	2	20%
Learnlaunch Inc	$325,000	2	10%
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology	$300,000	2	1%
Chica Inc	$300,000	3	13%
Flare Education Inc	$300,000	3	19%
International Rescue Committee INC	$300,000	2	0%
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy Inc	$290,000	3	3%
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc	$250,000	2	7%
Becker College	$250,000	1	0%
Bric Foundation	$250,000	2	14%
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Inc	$237,007	1	7%
Social Innovation Forum Inc	$200,000	2	5%
Colorado Succeeds	$200,000	1	4%
unCommon Construction Inc	$200,000	1	7%
Bismarck Public Schools Foundation	$200,000	1	30%
Virtual Enterprises International Inc	$200,000	1	5%
Mastery Transcript Consortium	$200,000	1	9%
United Planet Corporation	$200,000	1	25%
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc	$200,000	2	4%
Association for Middle Level Education	$185,000	4	6%
Empower Schools Inc	$183,000	1	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc	$165,806	1	1%
The Get Schooled Foundation	$165,000	1	7%
Taunton Public Schools - Benjamin Friedman Middle School	$158,150	2	n/a
The Hideo Sasaki Foundation	$150,000	2	60%
Rush University Medical Center	$141,450	1	0%
Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities	$130,556	1	1%
Cast Inc	$126,678	1	1%
GSV Summit LLC	$125,000	1	n/a
Microsociety Inc	$122,000	1	8%
Milford Public Schools	$110,000	1	n/a
Town of Barnstable	$110,000	2	n/a
Blackstone-Millville Regional School District	$109,990	1	n/a
Uxbridge Middle School - Town of Uxbridge	$108,649	1	n/a
Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership Inc	$100,000	1	4%
East Central Education Service Center	$100,000	1	n/a
Partners for Youth With Disabilities Inc	$100,000	1	4%
East Bridgewater Middle School - Town of East Bridgewater	$100,000	1	n/a
Springfield Public Library	$100,000	1	n/a
On the Road Collaborative	$100,000	1	10%
Uplift Education	$100,000	1	0%
Fort Worth Cradle to Career	$100,000	1	2%
Island Institute	$100,000	1	1%
Kipp Massachusetts Inc	$100,000	1	6%
City of Fall River	$100,000	1	n/a
Hawaii Workforce Pipeline Inc	$99,687	1	18%
Sxsw LLC	$99,450	1	n/a
Douglas Middle School	$98,217	1	n/a
Foundation for California Community Colleges	$95,353	1	0%
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc	$90,000	1	1%
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc	$90,000	2	2%
The Immokalee Foundation Inc	$90,000	1	1%
Monson School District Granite Valley Middle School	$88,380	1	n/a
NYC Department of Education	$77,340	1	n/a
Junior Achievement of Rhode Island Inc	$76,667	2	11%
Hopedale Public Schools	$69,000	2	n/a
Magnolia Global Academy for Leaders	$65,000	1	15%
Sutton School District - Sutton Middle School	$58,600	1	n/a
The Red Sox Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Suits for Seniors Inc	$50,000	1	11%
City of Boston	$39,006	1	n/a
Worcester State Foundation Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Squashbusters Inc	$30,000	1	0%
International Society for Technology in Education	$30,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Junior Achievement of Central Florida Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	27%
Junior Achievement of Oki Partners	$25,000	1	2%
City of Brockton - Treasurer's Office	$22,000	1	n/a
Cobble Hill Farm Education & Rescue Center Inc	$10,000	1	9%
Ceeds4change	$10,000	1	37%
Excel Academy Charter School	$10,000	1	n/a
New Heights Charter School of Brockton	$10,000	1	n/a
Town of North Attleborough	$10,000	1	n/a
Woburn Public Schools	$10,000	1	n/a
Attleboro High School City of Attleboro	$10,000	1	n/a
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Adams Street Foundation Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$5,000	1	0%

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 79.

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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.

Gates FoundationWA34.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Barr Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

How much does Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation give?: Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation reported 50 grants totaling $20,394,926 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (41%), Education (27%), Youth Development (21%).
Who are Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jobs for the Future Inc ($7.4M), Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship ($7.0M), The National Mentoring Partnership Inc ($3.1M).
Does Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Barr Foundation, Project Lead the Way Inc.
Where is Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation based?: Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation is based in MA.