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Massachusetts Hockey Inc

Foster the advancement, development and encourage participation in the sport of ice hockey within the commonwealth of massachusetts.

$43k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2017 to 2020.

Recreation & Sports$93kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$5k
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $43,176 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,176 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Spaulding Hospital Cambridge$10,000
Groton Crusaders Youth Hockey$5,000
Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORWOOD NUGGETS YOUTH HOCKEY: $5k → 7%CAPE CODE CANAL YOUTH HOCKEY: $5k → 8%East Coast Wizards: $7k → 8%LYNN YOUTH HOCKEY: $6k → 10%Triboro Youth Hockey Inc: $5k → 11%Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation: $10k → 16%Massachusetts Spitfires: $5k → 14%USA Hockey Inc: $9k → 9%Boston Jr Eagles: $6k → 7%Acton Boxborogh Youth Hockey: $5k → 8%Triboro Youth Hockey Inc: $5k → 11%Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation: $5k → 16%MEDFORD RECREATIONAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%SPAULDING ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $14k → 16%SOMERVILLE YOUTH HOCKEY: $5k → 8%Groton Crusaders Youth Hockey: $5k → 8%Spaulding Hospital Cambridge: $10k → 8%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 field

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.

1
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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2
Stoneham Youth Hockey Association Inc

Provide organized hockey and skating programs for youth in stoneham, ma.

Recreation & Sports
3
Andover Hockey Association Inc

To operate as a youth hockey league for approximately 700 boys and girls in adover, masschusetts in accordance with the bylaws and exempt purposes

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4
Newton Youth Hockey Inc

Youth hockey program of newton, ma

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5
Central Ct Youth Hockey Association

Advance the sport of hockey

Recreation & Sports
6
Methuen Youth Hockey Association Inc

Provide the youth within the community a league where they can learn and compete in the sport of hockey

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7
Quincy Youth Hockey Association Inc

Provider of youth hockey programs

Recreation & Sports
8
Maine Amateur Hockey Association

The organization's mission is to develop and encourage sportsmanship among all players, encourage and improve standards of hockey in the state of maine, unite all maine amateur youth hockey teams into one association, conduct annual…

Recreation & Sports
9
Medway Amateur Hockey Association
Education
10
Bedford-Katonah Hockey Association

A youth hockey program offered to the public to develop hockey skills, encourage healthy competition, and foster good sportsmanship.

Recreation & Sports
11
Simsbury Youth Hockey Association Inc

Provides youth hockey instructional programs for area residents including over 400 participants from ages 5 to 18.

Recreation & Sports
12
Monmouth Youth Hockey Association Inc

To provide its members an organized curriculum to play hockey

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somerville Youth Hockey Association; the most unlike its peers is Adaptive Sports New England Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADAPTIVE SPORTS NEW ENGLAND INC: $13,500 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE SPORTS NEW ENGLAND INCTRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INCUSA HOCKEY INC: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA HOCKEY INCLYNN YOUTH HOCKEY: $6,150 · Recreation & SportsLYNN YOUTH HOCKEYMASSACHUSETTS SPITFIRES HOCKEY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMASSACHUSETTS SPITFIRES HOCKEY INCMEDFORD RECREATIONAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMEDFORD RECREATIONAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INCCAPE COD CANAL YOUTH HOCKEY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCAPE COD CANAL YOUTH HOCKEY INCNORWOOD NUGGETS SKATING CLUB INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNORWOOD NUGGETS SKATING CLUB INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDNashoba Youth Hockey Organization: $6,855 · OtherNashoba Youth Hockey OrganizationEast Coast Wizards: $6,500 · OtherEast Coast WizardsBOSTON JUNIOR EAGLES INC: $6,000 · OtherBOSTON JUNIOR EAGLES INCGroton Crusaders Youth Hockey: $5,000 · OtherGroton Crusaders Youth HockeyBoston Bruins Charitable Foundation: $5,000 · OtherBoston Bruins Charitable FoundationBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBOSTON BR…ACTON BOXBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · EducationSOMERVILLE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$58,650Other$39,355Philanthropy$10,000Education$5,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS NEW ENGLAND INC: $13,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUSA HOCKEY INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JUNIOR EAGLES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACTON BOXBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOMERVILLE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMEDFORD RECREATIONAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get 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 · 0–10%
    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 17 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $319 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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