· Private foundation
United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Western Massachusetts, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc named its own grantees at scale: 47 organizations, $455k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k54 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAY FINDERS | $65,000 |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $30,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD OPERATIONS ECS | $30,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY | $30,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS | $30,000 |
| BAY PATH UNIVERSITY | $29,750 |
| YMCA OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD | $25,000 |
| VARIOUS | $24,963 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD | $15,300 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD | $15,000 |
| LUDLOW COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,000 |
| THE WESTFIELD ATHENAEUM | $10,000 |
| WEST SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| VIABILITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +64% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2019, 20 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWAY FINDERS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $74k · revenue +124%
- SMSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +22%
- BPBay Path University3× · 2017–2019 · $56k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CT&WMone grant, 2018 · $11k
- PMProvidence Ministries for the Needy Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +129%
- HRHUMAN RESOURCES UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2018 · $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.
To develop, implement, manage, operate, enhance and promote the general welfare of the people within the designated downtown worcester business improvement district (the district), through activities, programs, and services to include but…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…
The purposes of the corporation shall be to promote, stimulate, develop, and advance the business prosperity and economic welfare of the western massachusetts region and the citizens thereof, to encourage and assist, through loans,…
The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.
The philosophy of independent living, maintains that individuals with disabilities have the right to choose services and make decisions for themselves. this belief is the foundation and guiding principle in all of the policies and…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
Worcester Community Housing Resources' mission is to help create and preserve affordable housing and to initiate and support neighborhood revitalization in the greater Worcester area. Since 1994 we have proven ourselves to be a successful…
To provide services for disadvantaged youth
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
How this is measured
102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 161 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds WAY FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Bay Path University ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD OPERATIONS ECS INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Springfield Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELD ON WEEKENDS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Providence Ministries for the Needy Inc ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADOLESCENT RESOURCE AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELD ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Springfield Business Improvement District Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
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: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Massmutual Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
- Centro Las Americas Inc: 91% of income from government
- Work Opportunity Center Inc: 88% of income from government
- Highland Valley Elder Services Inc: 86% of income from government
- Alianza Dv Services Inc: 82% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
- Viability Inc: 81% of income from government
- Mental Health Association Inc: 66% of income from government
- Riverside Industries Inc: 61% of income from government
- Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
- Homework House Inc: 38% of income from government
- Spectrum Health Systems Inc: 33% of income from government
- Common Capital Inc: 30% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley: 30% of income from government
- New England Business Associates Inc: 28% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc: 26% of income from government
- Forest Park Zoological Society Inc: 12% of income from government
- Blues to Green Inc: 12% of income from government
- Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Enchanted Circle Inc: 9% of income from government
- Springfield Symphony Orchestra Inc: 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc: 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation: 5% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc: 4% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Bay Path University: 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
- Drama Studio Incorporated: 2% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc: 2% of income from government
- Spirit of Springfield: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Chicopee Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
- Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc: 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc: 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Springfield Partners for Community Action Inc: 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- American Consumer Credit Counseling Inc: 0% of income from government
- Westfield Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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