· Public charity
Way Finders Inc
Way finders, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $361,957 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $113,977,713 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $113,615,756 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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENLACE DE FAMILIAS HOLYOKEHOLYOKE FAMILY NETWORK INC | $235,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $76,400 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FAIR HOUSING CENTER | $25,435 |
| ONE HOLYOKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $25,122 |
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 (FY18–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- VOVALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC3× · 2018–2020 · $1.7M · revenue +127%
- EDENLACE DE FAMILIAS DE HOLYOKE HOLYOKE FAMILY NETWORK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $484k · revenue +9%
- SDSPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION6× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES AGENCY OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2023 · $23k
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSING & REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYone grant, 2018 · $18k
- QVQUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -32%
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
The organizations mission is to promote the development, rehabilitation and maintenance of affordable housing in medford, with a special focus on housing for low and moderate income people.
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…
Affordable housing rental rates for individuals with low income.
To promote responsible and sustainable home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income earners by producing comprehensive training and counseling, as well as promoting the use of special mortgage products and down payment…
To improve the quality of life in the hilltowns by addressing the economic, housing, educational, social, and community needs while preserving the rural charatcer of the area.
To acquire, own, manage and/or sell (or otherwise dispose of) real and/or personal property relating to, without limitation, foreclosures of multifamily or single-family properties financed by the massachusetts housing finance agency…
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Human Development Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amherst Community Connections. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ENLACE DE FAMILIAS DE HOLYOKE HOLYOKE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FAIR HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING NETWORK OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ONEHOLYOKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds QUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 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 · Health Resources in Action Inc · United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Way Finders 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.
- Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 55% of income from government
- Springfield Day Nursery Corporation — 52% of income from government
- Behavioral Health Network Inc — 29% of income from government
- Valley Opportunity Council Inc — 26% of income from government
- Oneholyoke Community Development Corp — 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.