· Private foundation
Metrowest Health Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k98 grants · $514k
- $10k–50k94 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $353k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $353,000 |
| ADVOCATES INC | $247,430 |
| EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $175,000 |
| EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| A PLACE TO TURN | $82,269 |
| ADVOCATES INC | $75,000 |
| SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC | $75,000 |
| AMAZING THINGS ARTS CENTER INC | $75,000 |
| SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC | $75,000 |
| WAYSIDE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC | $75,000 |
| METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES | $75,000 |
| SPOONFULS INC | $75,000 |
| EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $74,784 |
| HUDSON HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +42% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
138 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 64 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $444k 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
- EMEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +64%
- AIADVOCATES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +132%
- SMSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +99%
Funded once
- COCITY OF FRAMINGHAM - BOARD OF HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $105k
- MWMETROWEST WORKER CENTER - CASAone grant, 2024 · $67k
- NHNORTHBOROUGH HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gifts of Hope Unlimited Inc. 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 45 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 294 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 EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds A Place To Turn Inc ↗
- Who funds METROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZING THINGS ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST WORKER CENTER INCCASA DO TRABALHADOR/CASA DEL TRABAJADOR ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds METROWEST MEDIATION SERVICES INC DBA FRAMINGHAM COURT MEDIATION SERVICES ↗
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: Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester 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 Metrowest Health 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.
- Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Tri-Valley Inc — 68% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services — 47% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Natick Center Associates Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Women Thriving Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- William James College Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
- African Cultural Services Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc — 9% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Metro Community Development Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Franklin Food Pantry Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- The New England College of Optometry — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spark Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University 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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