Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc
Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,915,044 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,284,276). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$24M
Recipients
326
Contributions on record
$19M
Donors on record
108
Payments out are 1.31x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Theodore Edson Parker Foundationlocalportfolio match
- DCU for Kidsshared funders
- United Way of North Central Mass Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 20% · 2023 27% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.9M.
20 of 106 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $748k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Foundation for Metrowest Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
57% of Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.7M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
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 106 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Theodore Edson Parker Foundationlocalportfolio matchMA · funds 56 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersMA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of North Central Mass Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Massachusetts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trustees of the Ayer Homeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared fundersMA · backs 116 organizations that share your funders
- Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fundshared fundersMA · backs 105 organizations that share your funders
- The 1434 Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Wellington Management Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Linde Family Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trustshared fundersMA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc?
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,915,044 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,284,276). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $17,915,044 in grants to Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,284,276 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 106funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing