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Poweroptions Inc

The mission of poweroptions is to empower non-profits and public entities with solutions to reduce the cost, carbon, and complexity of energy.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$212kEnvironment$82kHealth$50kHuman Services$40kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$20kAnimals$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
$37,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC$37,000
UMASS AMHERST - ISENBERG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT$7,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $10k → 16%SAN JUAN CENTER INC: $10k → 11%METROWEST YMCA: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Neighborhealth Corporation

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,…

Health
2
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
3
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
4
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
5
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
6
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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7
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
8
Bridgton Hospital

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

Health
9
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
10
Jewish Healthcare Center Inc

The center owns and operates a 141 bed skilled nursing facility that provides inpatient long-term care and recuperative services for its patients.

Health
11
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

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12
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Work Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Manet Community Health Center Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOWN OF ARLINGTON MASSACHUSETTS — $174,000 · OtherTOWN OF ARLINGTON MASSACHUSETTSADL Ventures LLC — $45,000 · OtherADL Ventures LLC+9 more — $87,500 · Other+9 moreGREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC — $37,000 · Housing & ShelterGREEN ENERG…HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHARBORLIGHT…METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMETROWEST…SAN JUAN CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSAN JUAN …ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesROGERSON …COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…MANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · HealthArtspace Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLANDMARK SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationBay Path University — $10,000 · EducationANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON — $10,000 · Animals
Other$306,500Housing & Shelter$47,000Human Services$40,000Health$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Education$20,000Animals$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC — $37,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMANET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArtspace Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN JUAN CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORK INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANAGED HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANDMARK SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Path University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncHealth Resources in A…Amelia Peabody Charit…Rockland Trust Charit…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Poweroptions 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.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Work Incorporated — 76% of income from government
  • Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Bay Path University — 3% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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