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New England Rural Health Association

The mission of the NEW ENGLAND RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION is the improve the health and wellbeing of rural communities throughtout new england.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$159k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.6MHealth$932kCommunity Improvement$547kHuman Services$472kHousing & Shelter$110kCrime & Legal$10kEducation$6k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $1,264,366, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,905,145 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $640,779 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $277k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $967k
$29,209
Median grant
7
States reached
$596k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE$159,360
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$134,167
FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL$96,907
BERKSHIRE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION$94,121
IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS$80,000
THE HEALTH EQUITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$75,000
FRANKLIN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS$75,000
PIONEER VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION$74,043
FRANKLIN COUNTY LAND TRUST$70,080
TOWN OF WARE$56,621
CENTRAL MASS REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION$51,594
REDI HEALTH ANALYTICS LLC$47,086
NORTH QUABBIN COMMUNITY COALITION$32,248
BERKSHIRE AHEC$29,209
HILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$26,000
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 (FY22–25, $472k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%HELPING OUR WOMEN INC: $105k → 8%HELPING OUR WOMEN INC: $75k → 8%HELPING OUR WOMEN INC: $10k → 8%OUTER CAPE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS (LLC UNDER LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $75k → 8%LIFEPATH: $37k → 14%OUTER CAPE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 8%AGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $85k → 11%AGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $75k → 11%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 21 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$4.2M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+8%

Still filing today

48%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • FH
    FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $339k · revenue +23%
  • HC
    HILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $317k · revenue +5%
  • NB
    NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $230k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • LI
    LIFEPATH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue +8%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • HH
    Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital
    one grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue +8%
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
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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2
Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc or hospital) has four facilities, beverly hospital,…

Health
3
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
4
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
6
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
7
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
8
Berkshire Medical Center Inc

The mission of berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.

Health
9
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
10
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc

Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…

Health
11
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
12
Holyoke Medical Center Inc

Our Mission at Holyoke Medical Center is to improve the health of all people in our community. We do that with honesty, respect and dignity for our patients, visitors and staff. We do that through expert and compassionate care, education…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairview Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Community Justice. 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 39 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRANKLIN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS: $483,445 · OtherFRANKLIN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTSBERSKHIRE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION: $361,304 · OtherBERSKHIRE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSIONTOWN OF WARE: $296,584 · OtherTOWN OF WAREISLAND HEALTH CARE: $230,000 · OtherISLAND HEALTH CARENORTH QUABBIN COMMUNITY COALITION: $213,743 · OtherNORTH QUABBIN COMMUNITY COALITIONCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $175,171 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGETOWN OF NANTUCKET: $161,100 · OtherTOWN OF NANTUCKETPIONEER VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION: $157,294 · OtherPIONEER VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSIONCENTRAL MASS REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION: $151,594 · OtherCENTRAL MASS REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSIONBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $134,167 · Other+9 more: $250,764 · Other+9 moreHEALTH EQUITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $418,445 · Community ImprovementHEALTH EQUITY PARTNERSH…HILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $316,545 · Community ImprovementHILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVE…NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $230,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMM…FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $339,207 · HealthFAIRVIEW HOS…BERKSHIRE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $55,809 · HealthBERKSHIRE AR…BAYSTATE FRANKLIN MEDICAL CENTER: $38,886 · HealthBAYSTATE FRA…+6 more: $70,151 · Health+6 moreHELPING OUR WOMEN INC: $189,545 · Human ServicesHELPING OUR…AGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesAGING SERVI…LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $85,000 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE …LIFEPATH INC: $37,264 · Human ServicesLIFEPATH IN…FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $110,080 · Housing & ShelterQUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,424 · EmploymentFOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $5,579 · Education
Other$2,615,166Community Improvement$964,990Health$504,053Human Services$471,809Housing & Shelter$110,080Employment$10,424Crime & Legal$10,000Education$5,579

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEALTH EQUITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $418,445 over 3y, 40% of budgetFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $339,207 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $316,545 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $230,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetHELPING OUR WOMEN INC: $189,545 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $110,080 over 2y, 30% of budgetLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $85,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBERKSHIRE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $55,809 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBAYSTATE FRANKLIN MEDICAL CENTER: $38,886 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEPATH INC: $37,264 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHenry Heywood Memorial Hospital: $16,233 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMRH Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDINGTON-FAIRVIEW GENERAL HOSPITAL: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $11,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,424 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetHILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $9,252 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH ADAMS REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $8,168 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $5,579 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Health Resources in A…Berkshire Taconic Com…Berkshire United Way …AARPVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Health Resources in Action IncMA31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health Resources in Action Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · AARP · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 New England Rural Health Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New England Rural Health Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Lifepath Inc: 85% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Hilltown Community Health Centers Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Helping Our Women Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
  • Fairview Hospital: 3% of income from government
  • Baystate Franklin Medical Center: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 39 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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