· Private foundation
Main Street Group Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST | $15,000 |
| 495METROWEST CORRIDOR PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST | $15,000 |
| COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION (CO-OP) | $10,293 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NCM | $10,000 |
| CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC | $10,000 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC | $10,000 |
| BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| BOROS CARES 4 TROOPS (BC4T) | $10,000 |
| BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN WORCESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| METROWEST BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Main Street Group Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +131%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +94%
- ARAddiction Referral Center Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- MPMARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $27k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -18%
- MOMAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +213%
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.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Building Futures, Inc. provides safe, affordable, and quality housing opportunities in Worcester, MA for low-income individuals and families. It aims to transform the lives of public housing or rent subsidized residents with no cost to…
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.
Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county
The Organization's mission is to build pathways that help individuals pursue their goals through employment, career development, and community support programs.
The medway village food pantry is a 100% choice pantry serving over 2,500 children, adults, and seniors in metrowest ma. each week clients may choose from a wide variety of items including fresh produce, eggs, cheese, shelf-stable foods,…
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…
Daycare services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shirley Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 65 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 MARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Addiction Referral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds METROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REUBEN HOAR LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN WORCESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
- Who funds KITS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds METRO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Hudson Cultural Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ 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: Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Madigan Family 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 Main Street Group 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.
- Cooperative Production Inc — 93% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Metro Community Development Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Better Day Adult Social Day Program Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music 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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