A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $11k
$10k–50k10 grants · $304k
$50k–250k8 grants · $774k
$250k+1 grant · $607k

$35,465

Median grant

States reached

$898k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ABCDINC	$606,916
QUINCY COMM ACTION PROGRAM	$246,260
CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC	$103,553
CA PROGRAM- INTERCITY	$101,261
SOUTH SHORE COMM ACTION	$80,881
SELF HELP INC	$73,334
VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL	$64,139
GREATER LAWRENCE CAC	$52,373
NE FARM WORKERS SPRINGFILED	$51,784
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVIL	$35,865
BERKSHIRE COMM ACTION COUNCIL	$35,465
SPRINGFILED PARTNERS FOR COMM ACTIO	$32,295
PACE	$31,337
THE DIAPER BANK OF CT	$30,389
COMMUNITY ACTION- PIONEER VALLEY	$27,965

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.9M) 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 22 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+26%

Still filing today

95%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

QC
QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +31%
CA
COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INTER-CITY IN
4× · 2022–2025 · $656k · revenue +20%
SH
SELF HELP INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $597k · revenue +21%

Funded once

CE
CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +26%

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

04Your field

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.

Housing Assistance Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter

Community Action Agency Inc

To aid low income families with early education, energy assistance, nutrition help and other services.

Human Services

Community Action Partnership of Middle Alabama Inc

Providing low income individuals home energy assistance and providing emergency assitance as needed

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The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement

Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Inc

Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.

Human Services

Western Maine Community Action Inc

To advocate for, strengthen, and coordinate all resources private, local, state, and federal that will assist us in promoting the self-sufficiency of people. a belief in basic human dignity and the exercise of free choice motivates the…

Human Services

Community Action for Improvement Inc

The mission of community action for improvement, inc. is to build sustainable communities with partners by providing services and resources utilizing the whole family approach with low-income households to help reduce the burdens of…

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Community Action Board

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.

Employment

Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.

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Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services

Community Action Partnership of Central Illinois Inc

Agency provides community assistance to low income families and individuals including assistance with utility bills, home weatherization, emergency housing

Human Services

Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc

Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors in Need Inc. 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 59 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

11%

4,099/37,712

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 26 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

17/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,427,237Human Services$1,891,050Community Improvement$1,034,914Education$166,108Philanthropy$5,323Food & Nutrition$5,188

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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA30.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Children's Investment Fund 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 Massachusetts Association for Community Action 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines