How much did MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR AIDING grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR AIDING’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

englandboston

2020

england

2021

england

2022

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2023

faith-basedrecovery

2024

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2025

faith-basedrecoveryreligiouschurch

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $40k
$10k–50k3 grants · $60k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES$30,000
FUTURE HOPE APPRENTICESHIP$15,000
PLACE OF PROMISE$15,000
NEW ENGLAND AFTERCARE MINISTRIES$8,000
UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH$7,000
BOSTON COLLABORATIVE$5,000
BOSTON RESCUE MISSION$5,000
FATHERS' UPLIFT INC$2,500
THRIVE COMMUNITIES$2,500
PARTAKERS INC$2,500
HIGHROCK CHURCH$2,500
LIFE AFTER PRISON$2,500
PEOPLE AFFECTING COMMUNITY CHANGE (PACC GLOBAL)$2,500

02The need

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 (FY22–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$738k · 15 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -55% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$738k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

-55%

Still filing today

47%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES
8× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +49%
NE
NEW ENGLAND AFTERCARE MINISTRIES
7× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +33%
BR
BOSTON RESCUE MISSION
8× · 2018–2025 · $88k · revenue +55%

Funded once

BD
BOSTON DREAM CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -55%
FO
FRIENDS OF PRISONERS INC
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -99%

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.

Brookshire New Birth Ministries

To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction

Human Services

Prison to Purpose

The organization is to reinvent, rehabilitates,and formulates as a support group for individuals out of the prison system. Also offers job assistance

Crime & Legal

Living Way Christian Fellowship

Ministry of jesus christ preaching to all members of society

Religion

Prison in the Wild Inc

Provide ministry to inmates

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Bridge Prison Ministry

Bridge Prison Ministry is a faith-base charitable organization that serves inmates preparing to transition from incarceration to successful restoration into the community, family and reconciliation to God.

Human Services

Pardoned by Christ

To restore lives affected by incarceration. To reach out to people affected by incarceration , who will receive the love and provision that is found in Jesus Christ. To restore individuals and their families to our communities through in…

Crime & Legal

Recovery Ministries Inc

Religion

Prison Impact Ministries

Present the gospel through direct ministry or publications to prisoners incarcerated in various institutions.explain how love and peace contained through jesus christ can heal all past transgressions.

Crime & Legal

Next Door Ministries

The organization's purpose is to provide resources for men taking the next steps from recovery to a sustainable lifestyle. Our goal is to create a path to success for men struggling with a broken life pattern by providing a Christ-centered…

Religion

Second Street Second Chances Inc

Research and community leaders confirm that incarcerated individuals who receive support greatly increase their chances to continue on a path to responsible citizenship and positive engagement. second street second chances, inc. mission is…

Crime & Legal

Life After Next

We promote healing and growth of oneself and within our communities.We walk with our members all the way home.

Crime & Legal

Prison Discipleship Inc

Inmate & ex-felon counscling, religious training and rehabiliation in and out of prisons & jails

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Place of Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prison Prevention Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/11

Grantees still filing

7/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$372,925Religion$222,500Housing & Shelter$87,500Human Services$47,500Crime & Legal$36,000

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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR AIDING 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.

2025

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOSTON DREAM CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 471561016 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BOSTON DREAM CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Massachusetts Society for Aiding?

Find your warmest path to Massachusetts Society for Aiding through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR AIDING

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Massachusetts Society for Aiding?

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MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR AIDING

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Massachusetts Society for Aiding?

More from the funding graph