· Public charity
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc
The food bank of western massachusetts' mission is to feed our neighbors in need and lead the community to end hunger.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $122,638 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,299,224 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,176,586 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM | $8,942 |
| MCKNIGHT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $8,149 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE OF GOD | $7,500 |
| DEEPER LIFE BIBLE CHURCH OF SPRINGFIELD | $7,500 |
| CLINICAL & SUPPORT OPTIONS INC | $7,500 |
| SPRING OF HOPE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST | $7,500 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| CASA DE ORACION EMMANUEL | $7,500 |
| MACEDONIA CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST | $6,883 |
| MANNA SOUP KITCHEN INC | $5,300 |
| SPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| STRAITWAY TO HEAVEN COGIC | $4,961 |
| NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER | $4,798 |
| PROJECT NEW HOPE INC | $3,700 |
| ALL NATION CHURCH OF GOD | $3,354 |
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 (FY23–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- NSNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +44%
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +113%
- CSCLINICAL & SUPPORT OPTIONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOOD BANK SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue -83% · 99% of their budget
- SCSURVIVAL CENTERS INCgraduated9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +215%
- CPCHRISTIAN PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF HOLYOKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Uso Council of Pioneer Valley 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
83 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.
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 THE FOOD BANK SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CLINICAL & SUPPORT OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds The Gray House Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE CALL AWAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF EAST LONGMEADOW COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Westfield Mass Committee for the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WALES COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Stone Soup Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Health New England Inc · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Marguerite Jossel Charitable Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable 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 The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts 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.
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- Clinical & Support Options Inc — 32% of income from government
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Manna Soup Kitchen — 15% of income from government
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc — 14% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% of income from government
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc — 10% of income from government
- Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Berkshire Dream Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Independent Housing I Inc — 2% of income from government
- Parish Cupboard Inc — 2% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% 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.