Massachusetts · Public charity
Senior Connections Inc
The organization's mission is to provide leadership, resources, coordination of services, and advocacy for elderly people and their families/caregivers throughout central massachusetts.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $827,934
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Senior Connections Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $3.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $3.2M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $3.8M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $2.6M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $2.3M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Services of Worcester Area Inc | $9,455,667 | 9 | 4% |
| Tri-Valley Inc | $6,223,335 | 9 | 4% |
| Making Opportunity Count Inc | $4,381,342 | 9 | 3% |
| Aging Services of North Central Massachusetts Inc | $1,886,068 | 9 | 2% |
| Community Legal Aid Inc | $1,253,975 | 9 | 2% |
| Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc | $374,510 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services | $347,704 | 9 | n/a |
| Spanish American Center Inc | $272,345 | 9 | 7% |
| McPhs University | $132,622 | 9 | 0% |
| Centro Las Americas Inc | $91,104 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Services of Worcester Area Inc | $9,455,667 | 9 | 4% |
| Tri-Valley Inc | $6,223,335 | 9 | 4% |
| Making Opportunity Count Inc | $4,381,342 | 9 | 3% |
| Aging Services of North Central Massachusetts Inc | $1,886,068 | 9 | 2% |
| Community Legal Aid Inc | $1,253,975 | 9 | 2% |
| Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc | $374,510 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services | $347,704 | 9 | n/a |
| Spanish American Center Inc | $272,345 | 9 | 7% |
| McPhs University | $132,622 | 9 | 0% |
| Centro Las Americas Inc | $91,104 | 3 | 0% |
| YWCA Central Massachusetts Inc | $90,777 | 3 | 0% |
| Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc | $73,104 | 4 | 3% |
| Center for Living & Working Inc | $46,763 | 2 | 1% |
| India Society of Worcester | $36,513 | 2 | 5% |
| New England Homes for the Deaf Inc | $36,401 | 5 | 0% |
| Worcester Public Library | $32,125 | 3 | n/a |
| Uhai for Health Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Worcester State University | $27,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mab Community Services Inc | $10,672 | 1 | 0% |
| YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909) | $9,510 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Senior Connections Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Nypro Foundation Inc co Nypro Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Senior Connections Inc
- How much does Senior Connections Inc give?
- Senior Connections Inc reported 21 grants totaling $2,467,995 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Senior Connections Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (57%), Human Services (27%), Health (9%).
- Who are Senior Connections Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elder Services of Worcester Area Inc ($9.5M), Tri-Valley Inc ($6.2M), Making Opportunity Count Inc ($4.4M).
- Does Senior Connections Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Senior Connections Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of North Central Ma, United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc.
- Where is Senior Connections Inc based?
- Senior Connections Inc is based in MA.
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