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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH (Massachusetts) is funded by 8 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,065,699 in grants to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($833,870). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH is better cushioned than half of the 9,516 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,516 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
$15k from 2 funders in 2024, up from $39k and 2 in 2017.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 51% · 2019 39% · 2020 90% · 2021 85% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% · 2024 65% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
33% of BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH is locally rooted: 78% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing