How much did United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc grant in FY2023?

Human Services$35MHousing & Shelter$23MYouth Development$13MCommunity Improvement$11MPhilanthropy$10MEducation$5.5MHealth$5.1MEmployment$3.9MCrime & Legal$1.3MOther$53M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

nnastability everycifneighborhoods countryoak hillinclusivenessboats

2020

hphcharvard pilgrimloweralleviating hungerhunger mentalhunger homelessnessbuilt

2021

aliceacadianagreater rochesterrochester fingerfinger lakeshouseholdlives following

2022

brandeiscreativitylifelong lovehumanityedcreliefprofit

2023

neurofibromatosischnoncecbcsocial culturalcultural educationalcivil rights

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 437 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k81 grants · $574k
$10k–50k231 grants · $5.8M
$50k–250k110 grants · $12M
$250k+15 grants · $10M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$71M

Total assets

Largest grants

Worcester Community Housing Resources$2,022,797
NeighborWorks Housing Solutions$1,545,088
For Kids Only Afterschool$945,648
Community Teamwork Inc$858,256
DM Renaissance Development LLC$853,671
Independent Housing Solutions Inc$650,000
Catholic Charities - Boston$570,720
United Way of Central Massachusetts$502,258
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston$403,562
United Way WorldWide$340,071
South Shore Stars$329,737
Combined Jewish Philanthropies$291,706
Boys & Girls Clubs of Stoneham & Wakefield$284,050
Lynn Housing Authority & Development Group Inc$261,533
Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc$253,328

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 (FY18–22, $25.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$153M · 527 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

527 repeat relationships — 366 still active in FY2023, 161 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

527

247

Total granted

$153M

$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+43%

Still filing today

86%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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 Charities South
6× · 2018–2023 · $4.7M · revenue +25%
NH
Neighborhood Housing Services of the South SH
6× · 2018–2023 · $3.4M · revenue +3466%
TN
The Neighborhood Developers CONNECT
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +187%

Funded once

Massachusetts Alliance for Supportive Housinggraduated
one grant, 2018 · $347k · revenue +670% · 40% of their budget
UF
UJA Federation of New York
one grant, 2021 · $325k · revenue -8%
Digital Ready
one grant, 2021 · $195k

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.

Worcester Community Action Council Inc

Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services

Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter

United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc

United Way exists to build more equitable communities, together. With over 85 years of local impact in eastern Massachusetts, we work with and for our communities to build economic prosperity and enable everyone-across races and…

Philanthropy

Massachusetts Education & Career

Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.

Education

Massachusetts Housing Investment

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…

Housing & Shelter

Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in boston's urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement

Massachusetts Council of Human Services

The council's mission is to promote a healthy, productive and diverse human services industry.

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Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

Strengthen nonprofit sector through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education

Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2,046 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education

Massachusetts Public Health Association

The massachusetts public health association (mpha) is the champion for public health in the commonwealth. we are a catalyst for change, eliminating health inequities and promoting healthy communities for all.

Health

Cutchins Programs for Children

For children and families to have access to compassionate and transformative mental health care.

Health

Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

Mbr engages with public and private leaders to develop public policy solutions that enhance massachusetts' long-term competitive position and make it a highly-desirable place to do business within a global economy.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Fall River Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%14/827

the rest of the field

10%

4,097/41,531

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.

05the grantee network

726 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

240

Early backer (in before they grew)

685/726

Grantees still filing

564/726

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$63,367,798Human Services$35,048,142Housing & Shelter$22,687,511Youth Development$12,993,124Community Improvement$11,072,557Philanthropy$10,332,140Education$5,538,148

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA176.8× affinity165 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · Cambridge Savings Charitable · Boston Charitable Trust Fund · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

Roxbury Youthworks Inc — 88% of income from government
Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
Mental Health Association Inc — 66% of income from government
Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba — 66% of income from government
United Way of Greater Plymouth County in — 56% 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
Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc — 47% of income from government
Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
United Way of Greater New Bedford 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 — 33% of income from government
Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell — 27% of income from government
Citizens' Housing and Planning — 26% of income from government
Community Workshops Inc — 26% of income from government
Northeast Behavioral Health Corporation — 24% of income from government
Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
International Institute of New England — 24% of income from government
Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 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 (Fka Ellis — 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
Community Action Programs Inter-City in — 18% of income from government
South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% 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 — 15% of income from government
Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South — 13% of income from government
Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
Family Services of the Merrimack — 11% of income from government
Community Day Care Center of — 11% of income from government
Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood — 9% of income from government
Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese — 4% of income from government
Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
Third Sector New England 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 — 3% of income from government
Action Inc — 3% of income from government
Community Counseling of Bristol County — 3% of income from government
Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
Breakthrough Greater 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
Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
Project Adventure Inc — 1% of income from government
The Somerville Community Corporation — 1% of income from government
Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

60get no government money at all

9rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEARTH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 223135170 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEARTH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

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