· Public charity
Spectrum Health Systems Inc
To provide the highest quality of services to individuals seeking treatment for substance abuse and/or mental health issues.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $295,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $430,613 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,613 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABBY'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| LATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| FITLOT INC | $15,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THE HAVEN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FIT CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BRIDGING THE GAAP INC | $10,000 |
| MIRACLE MAMA'S | $10,000 |
| SMOC | $10,000 |
| MAIN SOUTH BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER INC | $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, $163k) 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 27 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
- MSMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +84%
- PFPATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue -5%
- BDBERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue -65%
Funded once
- TMTHE MOVEMENT FAMILY INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -3% · 29% of their budget
- FHFRIENDLY HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +20%
- JIJEREMIAH'S INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +35%
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 organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity
Research and community leaders confirm that incarcerated individuals who receive support greatly increase their chances to continue on a path to responsible citizenship and positive engagement. second street second chances, inc. mission is…
Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.
Direct service for those in need of housing & meals as well as funding for other similar non-profit organizations.
Provide emergency shelter for individuals who have become homeless, and a community meal program 7 days per week and social services case management and referrals as requested.
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
Anchored in faith our mission is to emvrace the dignity of evry individual by fostering empowerment resilience opportunity and hope
The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers…
Lowell house inc. is a non profit, human services agency dedicated to providong both outpatient, residential, and case management addiction and hiv services in safe and supportive community based environments. lhi emobides a culture that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Star Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is M I R a C L E Mamas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 79 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 MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOVEMENT FAMILY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AFROCENTRIC CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FitLot ↗
- Who funds Community Action Inc ↗
- Who funds POWER FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Bay State Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE YOUR LABELS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds MAIN SOUTH BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE RECOVERY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
- Who funds G A A P RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds M I R A C L E MAMAS INC ↗
- Who funds NET OF COMPASSION CORP ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Westborough Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Worcester County Food Bank Inc · Woosox Foundation Inc · Rize Massachusetts Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust
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 Spectrum Health Systems 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.
- Luk Crisis Center Inc — 95% of income from government
- Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
- Bay State Community Services Inc — 76% of income from government
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- Lynn Community Health Inc — 31% of income from government
- Fresh Start Wellness Center Inc — 29% of income from government
- Community Day Center of Waltham Inc — 18% of income from government
- Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Berkshire Dream Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- South Shore Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rcap Solutions Inc Formerly Rural Housing Improvement Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Village Afrocentric Cultural Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Louison House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Just Because 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.