How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Massachusetts?

Start with the funders already giving to human services in Massachusetts, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Massachusetts from out of state.

Who is the largest human services funder in Massachusetts?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to human services organizations in Massachusetts, $121M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to human services in Massachusetts?

$826M reached 1,117 human services organizations in Massachusetts, from 3,041 funders. 60% came from funders also based in Massachusetts.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Massachusetts · Human services

Who funds human services in Massachusetts

Human services funding in Massachusetts is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Social Finance Inc leads, and the money reaches 1,117 groups.

$826M

granted

1,117

organizations

60%

from in-state

The short version

3,041 funders gave $826M to 1,117 human services organizations in Massachusetts across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
60% of that came from funders also based in Massachusetts; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of human services in Massachusetts is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $121M.
The human services organization drawing the most is Social Finance Inc, at $49M.

Largest funders of human services in Massachusetts

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in Massachusetts, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$121M 2American Online Giving Foundation Inc$24M 3Boston Foundation Inc$22M 4National Philanthropic Trust$19M 5Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$19M 6Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc$16M 7United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$15M 8Blue Meridian Partners Inc$15M 9Rth Mission Park Realty Corporation$14M 10Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc$13M

Human services organizations in Massachusetts that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,107 other human services organizations$616M

Social Finance Inc$49M Pine Street Inn Inc$41M

How to find human services funders in Massachusetts

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Start with the funders already active in Massachusetts
The funders giving the most to human services in Massachusetts are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
40% of human services money in Massachusetts comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Massachusetts.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Massachusetts?: Start with the funders already giving to human services in Massachusetts, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Massachusetts from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in Massachusetts?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to human services organizations in Massachusetts, $121M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in Massachusetts?: $826M reached 1,117 human services organizations in Massachusetts, from 3,041 funders. 60% came from funders also based in Massachusetts.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.