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Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure the broadest possible benefit.

$164k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $145,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $164,230 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,230 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

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS$65,000
MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$30,000
CITIZENS HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION$25,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING LENDERS$15,000
URBAN EDGE$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIVING: $14k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$684k · 4 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +76% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$684k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+76%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther

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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $294k · revenue +121%
  • CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +28%
  • MA
    MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • HN
    HOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • JAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +162%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING LENDING
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Chn Housing Capital

Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.

Human Services
2
Nebraska Housing Developers Association

To increase the availability of affordable housing in nebraska.

Community Improvement
3
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
4
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
5
Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Inc

Generating economic development & combating community deterioration in low-income communities.

Community Improvement
6
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
7
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
8
Housing Partnership Development Corporation

Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…

Housing & Shelter
9
The Non-Profit Community Developmen Corporation of Dc

Npcdc's mission is to initate, sponsor and operate housing and economic development projects that create economic stability and upward mobility for low-income families in metropolitan washington, dc.

Housing & Shelter
10
Cambridge Affordable Housing Corp

The organization's mission is to provide management and supporting services for related organizations which own and operate low-income housing units for qualified individuals in the city of cambridge, ma.

Housing & Shelter
11
Innovative Housing Inc

Develop, preserve and operate affordable housing for low and moderate- income households and provde services to residents to maintain housing stability, improve quality of life and break the cycle of poverty.

Housing & Shelter
12
Tenants Development Corporation

The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home City Development Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Alliance for Business Leadership 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS — $293,667 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDSMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $125,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING LENDERS — $90,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING LENDERSHOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS — $25,000 · Other+3 more — $15,000 · OtherCITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC — $175,000 · Housing & ShelterCITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANN…HOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterJAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING LENDING — $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP INC — $5,000 · Social Science
Other$548,667Housing & Shelter$195,000Community Improvement$35,000Human Services$14,000Social Science$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS — $293,667 over 8y, 11% of budgetCITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC — $175,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $125,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING LENDERS — $90,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetJAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING LENDING — $14,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREW BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United Way Of Massachusetts Bay IncMA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Td Charitable Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual 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 Housing Investment Corporation 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
2021222324
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc26% of income from government
  • Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc9% of income from government
  • The Neighborhood Developers Inc3% of income from government
  • Urban Edge Housing Corporation2% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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, FY2024

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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