Massachusetts · Public charity
Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc
The massachusetts service alliance, established in 1990, is a private, nonprofit organization that serves as the state commission on community service and volunteerism. Our mission is to catalyze the innovation and growth of service and volunteerism by creating partnerships that maximize resources, expertise, capacity, and impact.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $216,629
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,942,312
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $393k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $16M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $15M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $14M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $15M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $14M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $13M | 15% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $12M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $9.9M | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Year Inc | $36,389,503 | 9 | 3% |
| Jumpstart for Young Children Inc | $12,198,733 | 9 | 10% |
| Northeastern University | $4,466,314 | 9 | 0% |
| The Student Conservation Association Inc | $4,399,199 | 9 | 3% |
| Tenacity Inc | $4,394,243 | 9 | 23% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $4,350,536 | 7 | 0% |
| Franklin County Dialself Inc | $3,402,356 | 7 | 37% |
| Springfield College | $3,296,311 | 9 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc | $3,236,953 | 9 | 19% |
| Barnstable County | $3,206,118 | 9 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · DCU for Kids
How this is measured
Compare Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc with peer funders
About Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc
- How much does Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc give?
- Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc reported 45 grants totaling $16,018,866 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Youth Development (11%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City Year Inc ($36M), Jumpstart for Young Children Inc ($12M), Northeastern University ($4.5M).
- Does Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Amelia Peabody Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc based?
- Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc is based in MA.
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