· Public charity
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc
To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 351 grants below total $30,031,766 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,796,043 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,764,277 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $418k
- $10k–50k113 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k159 grants · $14M
- $250k+19 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Caribbean Youth Club Inc | $1,404,022 |
| NeighborWorks Housing Solutions | $1,264,726 |
| Berkshire Housing Development Corporation | $1,250,003 |
| UW of North Central Massachusetts Inc | $1,115,147 |
| New Healthy Mass | $1,091,950 |
| Planning Office for Urban Affairs | $1,000,000 |
| Louison House Inc | $880,028 |
| Immigrant Family Services Institute | $712,481 |
| For Kids Only Afterschool | $484,411 |
| United Way of Central Massachusetts | $480,141 |
| United Way WorldWide | $459,708 |
| Catholic Charities - Boston | $446,809 |
| Haitian Community Partners Foundation | $429,226 |
| Meryl's Safe Haven Inc | $345,374 |
| The Neighborhood Developers CONNECT | $281,857 |
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 (FY17–25, $42.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
673 repeat relationships — 312 still active in FY2025, 361 since wound down; 24 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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
CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.9M · revenue +100%- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.0M · revenue ×42
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- COCity of Chelseaone grant, 2021 · $1.4M
- MOMinistry of Truth Internatioone grant, 2024 · $553k
- FSFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $308k · revenue -68%
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.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
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…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marjorie B Cohen Foundation Co Andrew Cohen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
845 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. 845 of the 984 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds NURTURY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Teamwork Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE STARS INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Caribbean Youth Club Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNN HOUSING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC ↗
- Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds JAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTHWAY 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Health Resources in Action Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation 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 United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- MASS211 Inc — 79% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County in — 56% of income from government
- South Shore Stars Inc — 54% of income from government
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Community Action Agency of Somerville — 49% of income from government
- Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc — 47% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 44% of income from government
- Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Workshops Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
- Aspire Developmental Services Inc — 34% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- For Kids Only Afterschool Inc — 29% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Northeast Behavioral Health Corporation — 24% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Franklin County Community Development Corporation — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Boston After School & Beyond Inc — 15% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 15% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- New American Association of Massachusetts Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc — 10% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Watch Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- East End House Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Hearthway Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Urban Edge Housing Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Haitian Community Partners Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Adventure Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Somerville Community Corporation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Louison House Inc — 1% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.