· Public charity
Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation
To support the charitable and educational activities of the mms and the mms alliance, including, but not limited to, developing and nurturing cooperation between individuals, professions, institutions, and the community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHANGE (ST ANNE'S FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM) | $20,000 |
| WORCESTER FREE CARE COLLABORATIVE INC (EPWORTH FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM) | $15,000 |
| GRATIS HEALTHCARE | $15,000 |
| ADDICTION REFERRAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH | $10,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY OUTREACH VAN PROJECT (TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY) | $10,000 |
| ADDICTION SOLUTIONS OF NANTUCKET | $10,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES | $1,420 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +144%
- SCSURVIVAL CENTERS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $98k · revenue +208%
- GHGRATIS HEALTHCARE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +95% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- TATHE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -61%
- GIGREENROOTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +91%
- WSWhittier Street Health Center Committee Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +25%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Our vision is to be a constantly growing, financially sound community health center.
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.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
The mission of berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.
To serve, educate, and inspire our patients in becoming more knowledgeable and participatory in their total health. to be a regional resource and leader focused on improving public health in the communities we serve.
How this is measured
67 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. 67 of the 75 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GRATIS HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METRO NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Restoration Recovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Addiction Referral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Health Resources in Action Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Yawkey Foundation II
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Restoration Recovery Center Inc: 100% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
- Gandara Mental Health Center Inc: 55% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
- Farm and Community Collaborative Inc: 47% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
- Transition House Inc: 39% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
- Charles River Community Health Inc: 20% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: 18% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc: 15% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc: 15% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc: 12% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc: 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
- Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% 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
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc: 7% of income from government
- Bma Tenpoint Inc: 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
- Asian Women for Health Inc: 0% of income from government
- Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc: 0% of income from government
- Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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