· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+21 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY YEAR BOSTON | $2,942,312 |
| JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN | $1,686,000 |
| SOUTH COASTAL COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES INC | $775,482 |
| BPE (BOSTON PLAN FOR EXCELLENCE) | $762,157 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $759,910 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY DIALSELF INC | $733,560 |
| TERRACORPS INC | $655,781 |
| FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY | $631,666 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY-MASSPROMISE FELL | $577,564 |
| SOCIAL CAPITAL INC | $549,048 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $534,925 |
| SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE AMERICORPS PROGRAM | $457,085 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC (BHCHP) | $451,978 |
| EAST BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER CORP | $430,081 |
| MA IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION (MIRA) | $397,209 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
72 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 8 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CITY YEAR INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36M · revenue +15%- JFJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +8%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +110%
Funded once
- BIBPE INCone grant, 2017 · $559k · revenue +7%
- BIBPE INCone grant, 2020 · $465k · revenue -9%
- SCSOUTH COASTAL LEGAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $409k
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.
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How this is measured
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 127 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 CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY DIALSELF INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds TERRACORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds POLICE ASSISTED ADDICTION AND RECOVERY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds BPE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds BPE 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Luk Crisis Center Inc: 95% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc: 63% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley: 62% of income from government
- Friends of Children Inc: 54% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc: 49% of income from government
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc: 35% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley: 30% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
- Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
- Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative Inc: 16% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc: 15% of income from government
- Maverick Landing Community Services Inc: 15% of income from government
- Cambridge School Volunteers Inc: 14% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
- Launchspace Inc: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Groundwork Somerville Inc: 12% of income from government
- Teach Western Mass Inc: 11% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England: 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Social Capital Inc: 11% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
- Franklin County Dialself Inc: 11% of income from government
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc: 10% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated: 10% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation: 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital: 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- Sponsor Inc: 2% of income from government
- Springfield College: 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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