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BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,246 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($980,917). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $105M
What Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation for Expanding Health Care Access does
Program
The mission (purpose) of the blue cross and blue shield of massachusetts foundation inc. Is to expand access to health care through grants & policy initiatives, the foundation works with public and private organizations to broaden healthcare through grants and policy initiatives. The foundation will focus on developing solutions that benefit uninsured, vulnerable and low income individuals and families in the commonwealth. Through catalyst grants, the foundation is a resource for mini grants of up to $5,000 to organizations serving the health needs of low income and uninsured residents of ma.
$6,042,643 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $79M to $90M (+14%).
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $39k → $183k.
1 of 9 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 CARE ACCESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 51% · 2019 41% · 2020 90% · 2021 85% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS?
- BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,339,246 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($980,917). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,339,246 in grants to BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS?
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $980,917 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are 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 9 funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing