· Private foundation
Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Prisoners
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES | $42,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PLACE OF PROMISE | $15,000 |
| BOSTON RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| NEIGHBOR2NEIGHBOR MINISTRES INC | $7,500 |
| UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| PARTAKERS INC | $6,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND AFTERCARE MINISTRIES | $6,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN DORCHESTER | $5,000 |
| LIFE AFTER PRISON | $5,000 |
| FATHERS' UPLIFT INC | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE AFFECTING COMMUNITY CHANGE (PACC GLOBAL) | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–26, $58k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Straight Ahead Ministries INC10× · 2017–2026 · $258k · revenue +35%- NENew England Aftercare Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2026 · $130k · revenue +35%
- BRBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC10× · 2017–2026 · $113k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- BDBOSTON DREAM CENTER CORPone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -63%
- HCHIGHROCK CHURCHone grant, 2025 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF PRISONERS INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society
To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction
A faith-based ministry that serves inmates preparing to transition from incarceration to successful restoration into the community, family & reconciliation to god.
To assist former prisoners to transition into society successully
The organization is to reinvent, rehabilitates,and formulate as a support. group for individuals out of the prison system Also offers job assistance.
Provide ministry to inmates
Promising People Missions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to aiding transitioning citizens in overcoming re-entry obstacles by facilitating access to support services, connecting them with faith-based organizations,…
Our 12 chaplains conduct group and individual bible studies and training to cover over 15,000 men and women in city, county and state facilities.
To help our clients recover from incarceration and homelessness, while providing programming that will empower individuals to become employed, have a bridge out of poverty, become self sufficient and overcome substance abuse, domestic…
Growth Ministries exists to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with incarcerated individuals through prison chaplaincy Bible studies mentoring discipleship educational programming and reentry support The organization promotes spiritual…
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds New England Aftercare Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Prison Prevention Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DREAM CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds PARTAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE AFTER PRISON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PRISONERS 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 · Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Prisoners funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Prisoners. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partakers Inc: 59% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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