· Public charity
The Health Foundation of Central Massach
To improve the health status of those who live or work in central massachusetts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $375,000 |
| RCAP SOLUTIONS | $300,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $255,773 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $254,908 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $250,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $249,994 |
| CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH | $125,000 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $125,000 |
| QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $124,254 |
| GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE | $115,000 |
| GROWING PLACES | $109,041 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY AND NORTH QUABBIN | $86,900 |
| CHOICES INC | $80,250 |
| HEALTH CARE FOR ALL | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Health Foundation of Central Massach’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 14 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- MSMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN4× · 2020–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +21%
- RSRCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +105%
- TMTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +94%
Funded once
- REREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL CENTRAL MASSone grant, 2017 · $500k
- WHWORCESTER HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2017 · $305k
- PJProject Just Because Incone grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue +10%
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.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Recognizing the dignity of all, cmha leads a collaborative response to homelessness that fosters long-term housing stability through prevention, quality services, education and advocacy.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Clark University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 104 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 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds QUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds GAAMHA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ORGANIZATION OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD FARMERS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LUK CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Project Just Because Inc ↗
- Who funds UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent) ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE 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 · Reliant Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Health Resources in Action 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 Health Foundation of Central Massach 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.
- The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
- Restoration Recovery Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc — 97% of income from government
- Luk Crisis Center Inc — 95% of income from government
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Viability Inc — 81% of income from government
- Center of Hope Foundation Inc — 74% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Aids Project Worcester Inc — 63% of income from government
- Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester — 60% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Gaamha Inc — 58% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- World Farmers Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Health Connections Inc — 32% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- Forge Foundation Inc — 27% of income from government
- Christopher House Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated — 21% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Children's Advocacy Center of Franklin and North Quabbin Inc — 20% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Camp Starfish Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Care Central Vna & Hospice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Building Futures Inc — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rcap Solutions Inc Formerly Rural Housing Improvement Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 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
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester 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.
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