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United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc

The united way of pioneer valley mobilizes people and resources to strengthen our communities.

$907k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of UNITED WAY OF PIONEER VALLEY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $123,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $907,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $784,115 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.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRINGFIELD 5A BULLDOGS INC$25,000
COMMONWEALTH MURAL COLLABORATIVE$20,000
AFRICAN DISPORA MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION$20,000
URBAN IMPACT INITIATIVE MA$20,000
COMMUNITY ACTION OF PIONEER VALLEY$18,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD$10,000
COLLECTIVELY RECOGNIZING EMPOWERMENT (CREW)$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $762k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YMCA OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD: $45k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD: $45k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD: $45k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD: $34k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD: $11k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD: $10k → 17%SOUTH END COMMUNITY CENTER: $45k → 17%SOUTH END COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $45k → 17%SOUTH END COMMUNITY CENTER: $45k → 17%SOUTH END COMMUNITY CENTER: $17k → 17%SOUTH END COMMUNITY CENTER: $17k → 17%SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION: $12k → 17%SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 17%SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION: $11k → 17%SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION INC: $20k → 17%OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15k → 17%OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13k → 17%OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 17%OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $10k → 17%YWCA OF WESTERN MASS: $35k → 17%YWCA OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $35k → 17%YWCA OF WESTERN MASS: $21k → 17%YWCA OF WESTERN MASS: $18k → 17%VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 17%VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $8k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER INC: $35k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER INC: $35k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILTY CENTER INC: $35k → 17%MLK FAMILY SERVICES: $17k → 17%MLK FAMILY SERVICES: $17k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $9k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $9k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 29 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
5

Total granted

$2.7M
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
0%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • SB
    SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $208k · revenue +153%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $180k · revenue +94%
  • South End Community Center of Spfld Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $169k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • HR
    HEALING RACISM INSTITUTE OF PIONEER VALLEY
    one grant, 2021 · $233k
  • ST
    Springfield Technical Community College Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -26%
  • THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +15%

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.

1
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
2
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.

—
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
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
5
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
6
South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc

To improve the quality of life of low-income and disadvantaged individuals and families by advocating for their needs and rights; providing services; educating the community; building a community of support; participating in coalitions…

Human Services
7
Springwell Inc

Springwell helps individuals improve their quality of life and reduce their need for residential care by helping them access community resources. springwell works with individuals directly as well as with government agencies, health…

Human Services
8
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

—
9
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
10
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
11
Urban Guild Inc

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

Community Improvement
12
Wellspring Inc

Multi-service agency providing many direct social services: education, community outreach, case management, counseling, transportation, crisis intervention, food programs, thrift shops, etc.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr13%6%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr19%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr19%59%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
11%
221/1,961

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $246,295 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHEALING RACISM INSTITUTE OF PIONEER VALLEY — $232,963 · OtherHEALING RACISM INSTITUTE OF PIONEER VALLEYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC — $180,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC — $150,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD INCLUDLOW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $145,000 · OtherLUDLOW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCCOLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC — $112,500 · OtherCOLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INCMASSHIRE HAMPDEN COUNTY WORKFORCE BOARD INC — $112,500 · OtherMASSHIRE HAMPDEN COUNTY WORKFORCE BOARD INCClinical and Support Options Inc — $86,669 · OtherClinical and Support Options IncCATHOLIC CHARITIES AGENCY OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSETTS — $52,500 · Other+11 more — $228,833 · Other+11 moreYMCA of Greater Springfield Inc — $190,138 · Human ServicesYMCA of Greater Springfield I…South End Community Center of Spfld Inc — $169,000 · Human ServicesSouth End Community Center of…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER INC — $122,176 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENT…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $108,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC…SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION — $78,500 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSIONOPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $47,500 · Human ServicesOPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICE…MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC — $43,896 · Human ServicesALIANZA DV SERVICES INC — $38,500 · Human Services+2 more — $41,129 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $208,212 · Youth DevelopmentSPRINGFIELD …WEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEST SPRINGF…Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentUrban Impact…HOMEWORK HOUSE INC — $112,500 · EducationSpringfield Technical Community College Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationProvidence Ministries for the Needy Inc — $63,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $63,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER SPRINGFIELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterOUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $62,000 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC — $18,333 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS — $33,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC — $27,221 · Philanthropy
Other$1,547,260Human Services$839,339Youth Development$363,212Education$162,500Housing & Shelter$146,000Food & Nutrition$80,333Philanthropy$60,221

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $208,212 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetYMCA of Greater Springfield Inc — $190,138 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLYOKE INC — $180,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSouth End Community Center of Spfld Inc — $169,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC — $150,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLUDLOW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $145,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetWEST SPRINGFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $135,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FAMILY CENTER INC — $122,176 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHOMEWORK HOUSE INC — $112,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetMASSHIRE HAMPDEN COUNTY WORKFORCE BOARD INC — $112,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $108,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION — $78,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetProvidence Ministries for the Needy Inc — $63,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $63,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $62,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSpringfield Technical Community College Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetOPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $47,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC — $43,896 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALIANZA DV SERVICES INC — $38,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Gray House Inc — $38,333 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS — $33,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC — $27,221 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION — $22,796 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER SPRINGFIELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUrban Impact Initiative Massachusetts — $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCOMMON WEALTH MURAL COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $18,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP PIONEER VALLEY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …The Beveridge Family …The Irene E and Georg…Easthampton Savings B…United Bank Foundatio…Peoplesbank Charitabl…The Food Bank of West…Peoples United Commun…Florence Savings Char…Health Resources in A…Arbella Insurance Fou…United Way Of Massach…
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA64.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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 Pioneer Valley 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Alianza Dv Services Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc — 72% of income from government
  • Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
  • Springfield Day Nursery Corporation — 61% of income from government
  • Homework House Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts — 32% of income from government
  • Valley Opportunity Council Inc — 25% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc — 14% of income from government
  • South End Community Center of Spfld Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Common Wealth Mural Collaborative — 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Ludlow Boys and Girls Club Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $966k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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