· Public charity
Metrowest Women's Fund Inc
To invest in women and girls in the metrowest through community building, education, and grant making.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $162,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $204,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS BAY FOUNDATION | $67,500 |
| METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES | $19,250 |
| ONE FAMILY INC | $14,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES NETWORK | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS | $10,000 |
| WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| RIA INC | $9,250 |
| REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $6,500 |
| JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE -MY LIFE MY CHOICE | $6,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $40k) 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- MBMassachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $259k · revenue +2%
- MLMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $59k · revenue +71%
- WCWellesley College2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SMSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +24%
- SESAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +0%
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 womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.
The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. In all our work, we strive to continually increase our…
To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. as the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Money Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Safe Exit Initiative (Sei) Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 Massachusetts Bay Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Services Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RIA Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE 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: Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Women's Fund 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.
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% 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.