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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.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$6.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Employment$52MCommunity Improvement$12k
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+6 grants · $8.5M
$57,627
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wellspring House LLC: $61k → 10%YMCA Greater Boston: $83k → 16%Computers for People: $380k → 14%YMCA GREATER BOSTON: $75k → 16%COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE: $15k → 14%YMCA GREATER BOSTON: $63k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $1.2M → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $951k → 16%Chelsea Collaborative: $759k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $474k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $212k → 16%La Colaborativa: $104k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $51k → 16%EPIC Enterprises: $14k → 8%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $41k → 16%YWCA Malden: $75k → 8%YMCA MALDEN: $61k → 8%Boston Chinatown Neiborhood CENT: $50k → 16%YMCA MALDEN: $47k → 8%YMCA MALDEN: $40k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOOD CENT: $30k → 16%YMCA MALDEN: $30k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOOD CENT: $30k → 16%MACP: $6k → 16%YMCA MALDEN: $29k → 8%YMCA MALDEN: $25k → 8%YMCA TRAINING INC: $62k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51M · 55 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
22

Total granted

$51M
$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

51%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $648k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TW
    THE WORKPLACE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $6.5M · revenue +2%
  • LA COLABORATIVA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue ×24
  • AT
    AMERICAN TRAINING INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $778k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • M
    MACIR
    one grant, 2024 · $177k
  • YS
    YMCA SHARED SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue -4%
  • ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +93%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

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

Community Improvement
2
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
3
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
4
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…

Employment
5
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
6
Cooperative Development Institute Inc

Develop and train cooperatives to create and sustain democratically owned, cooperative enterprises and networks in the northeast that grow a prosperous and equitable economy.

Community Improvement
7
New England Business Associates Inc

Support employment for disabled individuals.

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8
Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board Inc

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,…

Employment
9
Masshire North Central Workforce Board Inc

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.

Employment
10
Brockton Area Workforce Investment Board Inc

MassHire creates and sustains powerful connections between businesses and job seekers through a statewide network of employment professionals.

Employment
11
Cape and Islands Workforce

The organization is responsible for overseeing all publicly funded vocational education and training programs for the cape cod, martha's vineyard, and nantucket areas.

Employment
12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Workshops Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABCD Company: $22,005,554 · OtherABCD CompanyCITY OF MALDEN: $2,946,182 · OtherCITY OF MALDENREVERE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,949,524 · OtherREVERE PUBLIC SCHOOLS+53 more: $8,577,505 · Other+53 moreTHE WORKPLACE INC: $6,529,311 · EmploymentTHE WORKPLACE INCCOMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC: $537,126 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY WORKSHO…MERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $425,525 · EmploymentBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $383,420 · Employment+6 more: $349,371 · EmploymentLA COLABORATIVA INC: $3,752,358 · Human ServicesLA COLABOR…COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE INC: $395,456 · Human ServicesCOMPUTERS …YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MALDEN: $306,924 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOME…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $220,000 · Human Services+5 more: $252,478 · Human ServicesJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $692,795 · Community ImprovementTHE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC: $488,623 · Community ImprovementESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $60,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $38,396 · Community ImprovementBOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP: $411,930 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC: $366,226 · EducationBuilding Mass Careers Inc: $149,194 · EducationDigital Ready Inc: $113,777 · EducationWOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC: $59,204 · Education+1 more: $17,585 · EducationINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $738,107 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $58,088 · Civil RightsTHE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION: $358,225 · Philanthropy
Other$35,478,765Employment$8,224,753Human Services$4,927,216Community Improvement$1,279,814Education$1,117,916Civil Rights$796,195Philanthropy$358,225

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WORKPLACE INC: $6,529,311 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $3,752,358 over 7y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN TRAINING INC: $777,552 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $738,107 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $692,795 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC: $537,126 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC: $488,623 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $425,525 over 7y, 95% of budgetBOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP: $411,930 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetCOMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE INC: $395,456 over 2y, 34% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $383,420 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC: $366,226 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetTHE HIDEO SASAKI FOUNDATION: $358,225 over 3y, 39% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MALDEN: $306,924 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC: $299,133 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLA COMUNIDAD INC: $181,826 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION INC: $179,970 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBuilding Mass Careers Inc: $149,194 over 2y, 13% of budgetACTION FOR EQUITY INC: $125,103 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $117,029 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDigital Ready Inc: $113,777 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $109,997 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE: $86,474 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS INC MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER: $79,334 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE: $73,695 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WELCOME PROJECT INC: $62,106 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetGREENTOWNORG INC: $62,008 over 2y, 11% of budgetYMCA SHARED SERVICES INC: $61,700 over 1y, 15% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $60,781 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $60,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC: $59,204 over 1y, 16% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $58,088 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC: $50,811 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMETRO SOUTHWEST WORKFORCE BOARD INC: $50,173 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: $18,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,585 over 1y, 47% of budgetBERK COUNTY REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT BOARD: $16,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR A SKILLED WORKFORCE INC: $13,952 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION SQUARE MAIN STREETS INC: $12,229 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEAST SOMERVILLE MAIN STREET INC: $7,417 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMPETITIVE PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

United Way Of Massach…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Project Bread-The Wal…Combined Jewish Phila…Nellie Mae Education …Health Resources in A…Richard & Susan Smith…Cambridge Savings Cha…Rockland Trust Charit…People's United Commu…
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay IncMA38.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Metro North Regional Employment Board funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metro North Regional Employment Board. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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