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WAY FINDERS INC
Way finders, inc.
$84M
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
1
Communities
$72k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Human Services$2.0MHousing & Shelter$231kCommunity Improvement$93kHealth$50kEducation$36kOther$292k
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
aco partnerpartner paymentstabilizationhomeless
2020
foreclosure preventionstabilizationaco partnerpartner paymenthomeless
2021
foreclosure prevention
2022
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2023
raft applicationschdsocialeducationalmentalemergency
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
$22,792
Median grant
1
States reached
$70M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ENLACE DE FAMILIAS HOLYOKEHOLYOKE FAMILY NETWORK INC$72,200
- SQUARE ONE$50,000
- SPRINGFIELD PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC$36,000
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES AGENCY$22,792
- AMHERST COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC$20,800
- MASSACHUSETTS FAIR HOUSING CENTER$19,839
- CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENTINC$6,791
02The need
04
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 (FY18–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
1
Total granted
$2.5M
$18k
Still filing today
67%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationOther
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 COUNCIL3× · 2018–2020 · $1.7M · revenue +91%
- SOSQUARE ONE6× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +36%
- MFMASSACHUSETTS FAIR HOUSING CENTER5× · 2018–2023 · $157k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSING & REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYone grant, 2018 · $18k
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
Massachusetts Affordable Housing
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
2
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Housing & Shelter
3
Massachusetts Housing and Shelter
Provide social work, social services, education & public service functions.
Human Services
4
Massachusetts Council of Human Services
The council's mission is to promote a healthy, productive and diverse human services industry.
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5
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health
Provide world-class clinical care in a safe & compassionate patient-centered healing environment.
Health
6
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
7
Mental Health Connecticut Inc
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Health
8
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network
Strengthen nonprofit sector through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Education
9
Fair Housing Center of Central
To facilitate open housing for all people
Housing & Shelter
10
Bath Housing Development Corporation
Bath housing development corporation is committed to advancing housing solutions so people from all backgrounds and income levels can live, work and thrive.
Housing & Shelter
11
Beacon Hill Village Inc
Provide services to elders in central boston neighborhoods to assist them in living their lives to the fullest in their own homes as they grow older.
Human Services
12
Fair Housing Foundation
The fair housing foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of discrimination in housing and promoting equal access to housing choices for everyone.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Human Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$1,994,303Other$291,655Housing & Shelter$230,753Community Improvement$93,000Health$50,000Education$36,000
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 ↗
- Who funds SQUARE ONE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FAIR HOUSING CENTER ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING NETWORK OF MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds ENLACE DE FAMILIAS HOLYOKEHOLYOKE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
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 of WesternMA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western · Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board · Health New England Inc · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- Amherst Community Connections — 54% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2rely 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: MASSACHUSETTS FAIR HOUSING CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~6 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 +90% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 223043308 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 MASSACHUSETTS FAIR HOUSING CENTER, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Way Finders Inc?
Find your warmest path to Way Finders 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