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Massmutual Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Massmutual Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Massmutual Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 99 organizations, $12M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k33 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $366k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+13 grants · $8.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC | $1,500,000 |
| BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC | $1,050,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION | $894,028 |
| NEW NORTH CITIZENS' COUNCIL | $772,000 |
| REVITALIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $600,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC | $595,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $570,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY | $500,000 |
| THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC | $425,000 |
| NEIGHBORSHARE INC | $375,000 |
| WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY | $359,735 |
| UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC | $270,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LIBERTAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $200,000 |
| BOSTON FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2023, 49 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +755% · 34% of their budget- WFWAY FINDERS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +124%
- NNNEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL INC5× · 2019–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +107%
Funded once
- AOAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION Ione grant, 2018 · $2.6M
- UAUMASS AMHERST COMPUTER SCIENCE -UNIVERSITY OF MAone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- UAUMASS AMHERST COMPUTER SCIENCEone grant, 2017 · $1.5M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
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,…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Springwell helps individuals improve their quality of life and reduce their need for residential care by helping them access community resources. springwell works with individuals directly as well as with government agencies, health…
Children's services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilities First Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
314 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 314 of the 404 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAY FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Teach Western Mass Inc ↗
- Who funds FRAYSER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds THE MERCY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VENTURE MENTORING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP INC ATTN KAREN FINN ↗
- Who funds RISE MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds UNION CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Springfield Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Henrietta F Dexter Tuw-Dexter Ch · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Barr 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 organization Massmutual Foundation Inc 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.
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc — 81% of income from government
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
- Community Workshops Inc — 39% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc — 32% of income from government
- Springfield Cultural Partnership Inc Attn Karen Finn — 31% of income from government
- Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Sean Locke 24 Foundation — 21% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc — 14% of income from government
- Teach Western Mass Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc — 10% of income from government
- Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Springfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 8% of income from government
- Tech Foundry Inc — 6% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Make-It Springfield Inc — 3% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Spirit of Springfield — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Chicopee Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Western New England University — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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