· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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Provide assistance to those within the Billerica Community with food and personal care items to alleviate hunger and poverty.
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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.
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Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.
Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.
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.
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
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)
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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