· Public charity
United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region
United way of the franklin and hampshire region engages and inspires the people, employers, and other organizations of franklin and hampshire county to give, advocate, and volunteer on behalf of our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $630,678 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $648,830 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,152 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 $10k6 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $448k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC | $60,000 |
| HILLTOWN YOUTH PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM INC | $40,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY | $40,000 |
| HILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| IT TAKES A VILLAGE | $23,913 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY INC | $18,217 |
| STONE SOUP CAFE INC | $17,826 |
| NORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY | $16,435 |
| RESILIENCE CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY | $15,652 |
| HILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $14,087 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID | $11,739 |
| CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS | $10,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +9% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $382k · revenue +65%
- CFCENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC7× · 2017–2025 · $299k · revenue +90%
- NSNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $277k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $23k
- CLCOMMUNITY LEGAL AIDone grant, 2017 · $19k
- TUTHE UNITED ARC INCone grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue +21%
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.
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…
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
Daycare services
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
To operate a community health center providing a full range of health care services including medical, dental, vision, mental health and elder services to residents of the north end, charlestown and west end of boston, massachusetts.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
Committed to the healthy development,education,childcare,respectful eldercare, and to provide support & empowerment of all families of southeastern massachusetts, cape cod and the islands
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hilltown Youth Performing Arts Program Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 63 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
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 COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICENET INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS TRAINING CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CUTCHINS PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CRAIG'S DOORS - A HOME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE BRICK HOUSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hilltown Youth Performing Arts Program Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY DIALSELF INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREENFIELD MASS ↗
- Who funds NORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE CENTER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING KNOLL INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES INSTITUTE OF NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Health New England Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts Inc · Community Action Pioneer Valley · Ro Family Foundation · The Zoe Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable 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 the Franklin & Hampshire Region 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.
- The United Arc Inc — 93% of income from government
- Highland Valley Elder Services Inc — 86% of income from government
- Lifepath Inc — 85% of income from government
- Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- Friends of Children Inc — 54% of income from government
- Amherst Community Connections — 54% of income from government
- Hilltown Youth Performing Arts Program Inc — 47% of income from government
- Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Learning Knoll Inc — 40% of income from government
- Quaboag Hills Community Coalition Inc — 35% of income from government
- Behavioral Health Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Franklin County Incorporated — 21% of income from government
- Children's Advocacy Center of Franklin and North Quabbin Inc — 20% of income from government
- Hilltown Community Health Centers Inc — 18% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc — 15% of income from government
- Franklin County Dialself Inc — 11% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Mary Lyon Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rachel's Table of Western Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Transhealth 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.