· Public charity
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc
To promote health access for all through leadership and programs supporting community health centers and members in achieving their goals of accessible, quality, comprehensive, and community-responsive health care.
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 42 grants below total $8,022,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,744,686 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,721,886 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+13 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY | $758,910 |
| CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER INC | $565,086 |
| CARING HEALTH CENTER INC | $512,829 |
| NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION | $420,860 |
| HARVARD ST NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $414,079 |
| BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $391,337 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $383,655 |
| LYNN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC | $382,840 |
| FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTER | $317,360 |
| LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $304,000 |
| SO BOSTON COMMHLTHCTR | $280,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONSFITCHBURG | $266,623 |
| ISLAND HEALTH CARE INC | $261,029 |
| SSTAR FAMILY HEALTH CARE | $239,674 |
| EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER - WORCESTER | $228,054 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GLGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +74%
- FHFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +116%
- HSHARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +209%
Funded once
- CSCODMAN SQ HCone grant, 2023 · $766k
- FLFINGER LAKES HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCYone grant, 2022 · $489k · revenue -2%
- BHBEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +77%
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.
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…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
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…
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
The mission of core physicians is to improve the health of the community. this mission is principally accomplished through the provision of health services and information to the community within the resources available. as a…
Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…
Lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc) is committed to providing superior health care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and the…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To provide comprehensive healthcare of the highest quality for everyone in the greater lynn community regardless of ability to pay.(continued on schedule o.)our strongest commitment is to assure access to care for underserved members of…
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dothouse Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chelsea Health Center 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 49 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
67 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 83 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH EVALUATION AND POLICY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds South Boston Community Health Center In ↗
- Who funds CARING HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Holyoke Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UPHAM'S CORNER HEALTH COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHOUSE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROSLINDALE HEALTH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTAPAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHFIRST FAMILY CARE CENTER 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: Massdevelopment Hefa Trust · Boston Medical Center Corporation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Direct Relief · Reach Out and Read Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Upstream USA Inc · Community Care Cooperative Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · President and Fellows of Harvard College
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 League of Community Health Centers 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.
- Bowdoin Street Health Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vinfen Corporation — 83% of income from government
- Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
- Bay State Community Services Inc — 76% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- North Suffolk Community Services Inc — 63% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- South Shore Mental Health Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- North Shore Community Health Inc — 43% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Caring Health Center Inc — 39% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Harbor Health Services Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Holyoke Health Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Community Health Connections Inc — 32% of income from government
- Clinical & Support Options Inc — 32% of income from government
- Upham's Corner Health Committee Inc — 30% of income from government
- Behavioral Health Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Healthfirst Family Care Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated — 21% of income from government
- Mattapan Community Health Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Charles River Community Health Inc — 20% of income from government
- Hilltown Community Health Centers Inc — 18% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc — 15% of income from government
- South Cove Community Health Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% of income from government
- North End Community Health Committee — 13% of income from government
- Dothouse Health Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- South Boston Community Health Center in — 10% of income from government
- Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Neighborhood Health Center — 9% of income from government
- Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% 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.