· Public charity
United Way of Acton-Boxborough Inc
A Community where everyone belongs and thrives.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MetroWest Legal Services | $20,000 |
| Minuteman Senior Services | $15,000 |
| Domestic Violence Services | $15,000 |
| Eliot Community Human Service | $13,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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 +106% since the first grant, against +72% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DVDomestic Violence Services Network Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +16%
- MSMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $83k · revenue +106%
- MLMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2018–2022 · $74k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- MMMINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +72%
- ECELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +90%
- ARActon-Boxborough Regional Higone grant, 2017 · $11k
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.
Daycare services
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Assist people with disabilities
Till is a private, not-for-profit human service agency established to develop and provide programs and services to meet the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, physical handicaps, emotional problems and…
Provide assisted living facilities for low to moderate income elders.
Mwcil enhances the full participation of persons with disabilities in the community.
The organization provides residential services to the mentally ill and developmentally disabled adult population.
To promote adult literacy by providing tutors.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
Advocacy & education on intellectual and developmental disabilities
Founded in 1952, The Arc Quinebaug Valley is a nonprofit human services agency committed to supporting individuals (and their families) with intellectual, developmental and other life-affecting disabilities. We provide opportunities…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 Domestic Violence Services Network Inc ↗
- Who funds MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INFANT TODDLER CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINUTE MAN ARC FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH AT LARGE INC ↗
- Who funds DOLI ATAMIAN CAMPERSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
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: Concord Carlisle Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Acton-Boxborough Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Acton-Boxborough Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Minuteman Senior Services Inc: 67% of income from government
- English at Large Inc: 51% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc: 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc: 6% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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