· Public charity
Metro North Regional Employment Board
MassHire Metro North Workforce Board's mission is to develop partnerships, generate resources, and advocate for workforce solutions that result in a skilled workforce, prospering businesses, and equitable access to meaningful career pathways and quality employment for residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+6 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABCD Company | $6,191,905 |
| Chelsea Collaborative | $758,853 |
| Macir | $446,538 |
| Computers for People | $380,159 |
| City of Malden | $365,254 |
| City of Revere | $356,404 |
| Somerville Center for Adult Learning | $229,468 |
| International institute of New Eng | $216,262 |
| Somerville Community Corp | $185,798 |
| Cambridge Community TV | $167,246 |
| Breaktime United | $158,553 |
| Sasaki foundation | $155,136 |
| Boston Education Skills and Training | $130,750 |
| Digital Ready | $113,777 |
| La Colaborativa | $103,969 |
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 (FY19–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 13 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $648k 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
- TWTHE WORKPLACE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $6.5M · revenue +2%
LA COLABORATIVA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue ×24- ATAMERICAN TRAINING INC5× · 2019–2025 · $778k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- MMACIRone grant, 2024 · $177k
- YSYMCA SHARED SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue -4%
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +93%
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.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
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…
MassHire Metro North Workforce Board's mission is to develop partnerships, generate resources, and advocate for workforce solutions that result in a skilled workforce, prospering businesses, and equitable access to meaningful career…
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…
Develop and train cooperatives to create and sustain democratically owned, cooperative enterprises and networks in the northeast that grow a prosperous and equitable economy.
Support employment for disabled individuals.
EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…
Provide job driven employment and educational services that expand opportunities for young people and adults in north central massachusetts and provide employers with the competitive workforce they need to succeed.
MassHire creates and sustains powerful connections between businesses and job seekers through a statewide network of employment professionals.
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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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Workshops Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hideo Sasaki Foundation. 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 38 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 90 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
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 THE WORKPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MALDEN ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LA COMUNIDAD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Building Mass Careers Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Digital Ready Inc ↗
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: United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts 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 North Regional Employment Board 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.
- The Workplace Inc — 100% of income from government
- American Training Inc — 85% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Metro Southwest Workforce Board Inc — 81% of income from government
- Pathways Adult Education & Training Inc — 45% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Workshops Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Digital Ready Inc — 6% of income from government
- Greentownorg Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Welcome Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Somerville Community Corporation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Computers for People 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.