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Metro Credit Union Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Community Improvement$50kEducation$30kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$30kFood & Nutrition$20kYouth Development$15kEmployment$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WE ARE ALX INC$10,000
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALITION INC$10,000
ABOUT FRESH INC$10,000
ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC$10,000
LAWRENCE PARTNERSHIP INC$10,000
URBAN EDGE HOUSING CORP$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC$10,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 8%CASA MYRNA: $5k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

1
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
2
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
3
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
4
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
5
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

6
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
7
Massachusetts High Technology Council Inc

The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…

8
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
9
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
10
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
11
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
12
Tenants Development Corporation

The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Real Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr15%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr20%21%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr15%11%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
11%
1,166/10,871

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $103,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYMCA OF METRO NORTH — $5,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INCMOSAIC INTERFAITH YOUTH ACTION INC — $5,000 · OtherBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $10,000 · OtherBREAKTIME UNITED INCURBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN EDGE HOUS…WE ARE ALX INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWE ARE ALX INCLawrence Partnership Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLawrence Partne…ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementALLSTON BRIGHTO…LEAP for Education Inc — $10,000 · EducationLEAP for Ed…THE REAL PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE REAL PR…THE MIDAS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE MIDAS C…MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSET…NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SHORE…ROXBURY MAIN STREETS REVITALIZATION CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterROXBURY MAI…SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH MID…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS …CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRN…ABOUT FRESH INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD & ROSES INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $10,000 · HealthITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 · Health
Other$133,000Community Improvement$40,000Education$30,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Human Services$25,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE REAL PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE ARE ALX INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLawrence Partnership Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROXBURY MAIN STREETS REVITALIZATION CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE MIDAS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOSAIC INTERFAITH YOUTH ACTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA34.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc

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 Metro Credit Union 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • The Midas Collaborative Inc39% of income from government
  • Italian Home for Children Inc29% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children21% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc18% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc9% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc5% of income from government
  • Urban Edge Housing Corporation2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc2% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc1% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Development Coalit0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Metro Credit Union Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Metro Credit Union Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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