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United Way of North Central Mass Inc

The mission of uwncm is to create opportunities for a better life through innovative leadership that improves the human condition by mobilizing the caring power of the community.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$3.6MHuman Services$3.6MEducation$3.3MHousing & Shelter$2.4MPhilanthropy$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$914kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 60 grants below total $3,345,610, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,733,433 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $387,823 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $878k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $840k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$24,091
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR FATHER'S HOUSE INC$1,063,870
CITY OF LEOMINSTER$500,000
MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$193,858
SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC$82,273
ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$75,370
ST BERNARD'S HIGH SCHOOL INC$71,750
GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC$66,849
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC$63,925
HOUSE OF PEACE & EDUCATION INC$61,050
SALVATION ARMY MONTACHUSETT CORPS$60,300
MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST$60,000
RALLYSOUND INC$52,876
HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC$51,770
YMCA - CENTRAL MASS INC$47,750
APPLEWILD SCHOOL INC$44,450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry I: $41k → 8%YWCM of Central Mass: $44k → 11%YWCM of Central Mass: $33k → 11%TOWNSEND ECUMENICAL OUTREACH INC: $36k → 8%YWCM of Central Mass: $33k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $30k → 11%Gardner Community Action Comm: $69k → 11%GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $62k → 11%Gardner Community Action Comm: $60k → 11%Gardner Community Action Comm: $47k → 11%Athol Area YMCA: $158k → 11%Athol Area YMCA: $94k → 11%ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $90k → 11%ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $85k → 11%ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $75k → 11%ATHOL AREA YMCA: $59k → 11%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $170k → 11%Montachusett Opportunity Couc: $76k → 11%Athol Area YMCA: $65k → 11%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT: $65k → 11%Athol Area YMCA: $57k → 11%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $53k → 11%Montachusett Opportunity Couc: $52k → 11%Athol Area YMCA: $52k → 11%Montachusett Opportunity Couc: $52k → 11%Making Opportunity Count: $37k → 11%Montachusett Interfaith Hospi: $35k → 11%SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC: $146k → 11%SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC: $115k → 11%SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER: $100k → 11%SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC: $82k → 11%GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $74k → 11%Spanish American Center: $68k → 11%GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $67k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $66k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $60k → 11%GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $50k → 11%GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $43k → 11%North Star Family Services: $42k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40k → 11%GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $38k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $37k → 11%YMCA - CENTRAL MASS INC: $52k → 11%YMCA - CENTRAL MASS INC: $48k → 11%YMCA of Central Mass: $45k → 11%YMCA of Central Mass: $38k → 11%YMCA - CENTRAL MASS INC: $37k → 11%YMCA of Central Mass: $37k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 89 repeat orgs$900k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

89 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
50

Total granted

$17M
$750k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+2%

Still filing today

76%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AS
    APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +338%
  • AY
    ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND SUBSIDIARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +78%
  • SA
    SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $602k · revenue +347%

Funded once

  • GG
    GARDNER GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +113%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF WORCESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +81%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +42%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
3
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
4
Worcester Community Action Council Inc

The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services
5
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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8
Masshire North Central Workforce Board Inc

Provide job driven employment and educational services that expand opportunities for young people and adults in north central massachusetts and provide employers with the competitive workforce they need to succeed.

Employment
9
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
10
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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11
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

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.

Education
12
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc

Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growing Places Garden Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gardner Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

115 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. 115 of the 151 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/115
Grantees still filing
80/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC: $1,812,613 · OtherOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INCCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,727,573 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGECITY OF LEOMINSTER: $948,910 · OtherCITY OF LEOMINSTERSalvation Army Montachusett A: $588,277 · OtherSalvation Army Montachusett A+89 more: $4,492,958 · Other+89 moreATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND SUBSIDIARY: $734,772 · Human ServicesATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRI…SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC: $601,866 · Human ServicesSPANISH AMERICAN CENTE…MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $591,541 · Human ServicesMAKING OPPORTUNITY COU…NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $357,904 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR FAMILY SERV…GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $319,839 · Human ServicesGARDNER COMMUNITY ACTI…YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909): $285,743 · Human ServicesYMCA of Central Massac…YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $249,435 · Human ServicesYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUS…GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $192,326 · Human ServicesGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $146,861 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $137,166 · Human Services+7 more: $405,133 · Human Services+7 moreAPPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,327,588 · EducationAPPLEWILD SCH…Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc: $599,371 · EducationMount Wachuse…TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $206,750 · EducationTRUSTEES OF L…THE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC: $85,000 · Education+9 more: $219,627 · Education+9 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA: $1,998,589 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…+5 more: $104,724 · PhilanthropyHeywood Healthcare Inc: $274,300 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC: $207,738 · HealthTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC: $154,506 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $70,000 · HealthGARDNER GROUP INC: $60,000 · Health+3 more: $30,320 · HealthASHBURNHAM CONSERVATION TRUST: $268,500 · EnvironmentMOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $245,000 · EnvironmentNORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $126,700 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $24,091 · Environment+1 more: $13,450 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL: $154,891 · Youth DevelopmentJUST UNDERSTAND MY POTENTIAL INC: $92,889 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CLUB LUNENBURG TEEN CENTER INC: $82,702 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC: $79,524 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $55,685 · Youth DevelopmentWENDELL P CLARK MEMORIAL YMCA INC: $35,904 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $26,626 · Youth Development+1 more: $20,600 · Youth Development
Other$9,570,331Human Services$4,022,586Education$2,438,336Philanthropy$2,103,313Health$796,864Environment$677,741Youth Development$623,821

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA: $1,998,589 over 7y, 16% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC: $1,812,613 over 9y, 78% of budgetAPPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,327,588 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND SUBSIDIARY: $734,772 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetSPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC: $601,866 over 9y, 12% of budgetMount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc: $599,371 over 6y, 16% of budgetMAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $591,541 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $357,904 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetGARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $319,839 over 8y, 38% of budgetYMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909): $285,743 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetASHBURNHAM CONSERVATION TRUST: $268,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetHOUSE OF PEACE AND EDUCATION INC: $265,606 over 9y, 13% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $249,435 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $245,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC: $207,738 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $206,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $192,326 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC: $191,677 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $180,927 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $177,776 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetRALLYSOUND INC: $172,347 over 7y, 19% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL: $154,891 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC: $154,506 over 4y, 14% of budgetGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $146,861 over 7y, 13% of budgetTHE ARC OF OPPORTUNITY IN NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $141,983 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBERNARDIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $138,462 over 9y, 23% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $137,166 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetFRESH FILMS: $131,667 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $130,578 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $126,700 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $105,420 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $101,962 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMASS211 INC: $96,651 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetJUST UNDERSTAND MY POTENTIAL INC: $92,889 over 4y, 67% of budgetTHE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Farm School Inc: $83,574 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLUB LUNENBURG TEEN CENTER INC: $82,702 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetLAUNCHSPACE INC: $82,014 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC: $79,524 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $77,873 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTOWNSEND ECUMENICAL OUTREACH INC: $73,537 over 3y, 49% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLUK CRISIS CENTER INC: $65,196 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE MONTACHUSETT AREA: $62,918 over 7y, 47% of budgetOUTREACH INC: $61,138 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGARDNER GROUP INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
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 NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909) ↗
  • Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASHBURNHAM CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF PEACE AND EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
  • Who funds RALLYSOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE SHINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF OPPORTUNITY IN NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BERNARDIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH FILMS ↗
  • Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS 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.

Community Foundation …Greater Worcester Com…Rollstone Charitable …Hometown Bank Communi…Reliant Foundation IncGeorge R Wallace Foun…The Health Foundation…Avidia Charitable Fou…Greater Lowell Commun…Douglas & Isabelle Cr…The Fred Harris Danie…DCU for Kids
Community Foundation of North Central MaMA136.5× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · DCU for Kids

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of North Central Mass Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of North Central Mass Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Restoration Recovery Center Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Luk Crisis Center Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Pathways for Change Inc: 86% of income from government
  • MASS211 Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester: 60% of income from government
  • Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Senior Connections Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Growing Places Garden Project Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Newvue Communities Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • World Farmers Inc: 39% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Community Health Connections Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
  • House of Peace and Education Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Making Opportunity Count Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Townsend Ecumenical Outreach Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • New England Farm Workers Council Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I: 17% of income from government
  • Launchspace Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Spanish American Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Farm School Inc: 12% of income from government
  • North Star Family Services Inc: 12% of income from government
  • North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • New Dawn Arts Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Rallysound Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fitchburg Art Museum: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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