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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.

$26M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.8MHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $122,638, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,299,224 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,176,586 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM$8,942
MCKNIGHT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$8,149
CASA DE ORACION EMMANUEL$7,500
FREEDOM HOUSE OF GOD$7,500
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES$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
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD: $15k → 12%EASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $19k → 12%BERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC: $8k → 12%EASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD: $5k → 12%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY- WESTFIELD: $4k → 17%UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY: $16k → 17%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $41k → 12%CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD: $3k → 12%BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 14%UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY: $15k → 17%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $5k → 12%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $13k → 12%COMMUNITY SURVIVAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY SURVIVAL CENTER: $518 → 17%OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$481k · 30 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
23

Total granted

$481k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+25%

Still filing today

70%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthPublic BenefitEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NS
    NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +44%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +113%
  • CS
    CLINICAL & SUPPORT OPTIONS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK SUPPORT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue -83% · 99% of their budget
  • SC
    SURVIVAL CENTERS INCgraduated
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +215%
  • CP
    CHRISTIAN PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF HOLYOKE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
3
Middlebury Transitional Care Coalition

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Billerica Community Pantry Inc

Provide assistance to those within the Billerica Community with food and personal care items to alleviate hunger and poverty.

Food & Nutrition
5
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc

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

Human Services
6
Newton Food Pantry Inc

The newton food pantry works to alleviate food insecurity by providing free supplemental food and personal care products to community members in need, serving clients with dignity, compassion and respect.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

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8
Central Ma Food Rescue Inc

Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.

Food & Nutrition
9
Emergency Food Aid in Southbury

Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.

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10
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
11
Dwelling House of Hope Inc

Alleviate poverty among New-Americans and low-income families in the Merrimack Valley through food assistance, educational, social and cultural initiatives which foster diversity, inclusivity and equity

Food & Nutrition
12
Citizens Inn Inc

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)

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/83
Grantees still filing
58/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOOD BANK SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,232,740 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK SUPPORT CORPORATION+9 more: $63,440 · Food & NutritionFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC: $43,042 · OtherFRANKLIN COUNTY CO…CLINICAL & SUPPORT OPTIONS INC: $32,720 · OtherCLINICAL & SUPPORT…COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY: $25,349 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION P…The Gray House Inc: $24,085 · OtherThe Gray House IncSALVATION ARMY & ITS COMPONENTS: $20,757 · OtherSALVATION ARMY & I…THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $16,002 · OtherCHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INC: $15,861 · Other+27 more: $123,034 · Other+27 moreNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $46,045 · Human ServicesNORTHAMPTON…MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesMARTIN LUTH…UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY INC: $31,548 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY …THE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD: $22,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHRISTI…THE FRIENDS OF EAST LONGMEADOW COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $21,006 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDS…SURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $13,138 · Human ServicesSURVIVAL CE…BERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC: $8,336 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $8,331 · Human Services+3 more: $6,448 · Human ServicesProvidence Ministries for the Needy Inc: $13,631 · Housing & ShelterGreater Westfield Mass Committee for the Homeless Inc: $10,281 · Housing & ShelterTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $9,726 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $959 · Housing & ShelterONE CALL AWAY INC: $23,223 · HealthBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $899 · Health+1 more: $650 · HealthPROJECT NEW HOPE INC: $6,562 · Public BenefitSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4,457 · EducationParish Cupboard Inc: $1,000 · Religion
Food & Nutrition$1,296,180Other$300,850Human Services$189,852Housing & Shelter$34,597Health$24,772Public Benefit$6,562Education$4,457Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOOD BANK SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,232,740 over 1y, 99% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $46,045 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC: $43,042 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetCLINICAL & SUPPORT OPTIONS INC: $32,720 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY INC: $31,548 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY: $25,349 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gray House Inc: $24,085 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetONE CALL AWAY INC: $23,223 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD: $22,500 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF EAST LONGMEADOW COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $21,006 over 9y, 69% of budgetBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC: $14,432 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetProvidence Ministries for the Needy Inc: $13,631 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $13,138 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $11,540 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetGreater Westfield Mass Committee for the Homeless Inc: $10,281 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $9,726 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA SOUP KITCHEN: $8,802 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED: $8,697 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC: $8,336 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $8,331 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWALES COMMUNITY PANTRY: $7,781 over 9y, 20% of budgetPROJECT NEW HOPE INC: $6,562 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetStone Soup Cafe Inc: $6,507 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PANTRY: $5,367 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4,457 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWendell Good Neighbors Inc: $4,098 over 9y, 37% of budgetGREATER WESTFIELD EMERGENCY: $4,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $3,914 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,718 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY SURVIVAL CENTER: $1,534 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetParish Cupboard Inc: $1,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDEPENDENT HOUSING I INC: $959 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $899 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA100.4× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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