Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC
PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $937,750 to it, the largest being POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($298,625). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $344k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $938k
- Net assets
- $690k
What Pioneer Valley Regional Ventures Center Inc does
Mission
Provide management and program direction for projects designed to address various problems confronting pioneer valley area of western massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Age friendly pioneer valley - planning effort to expand our work encouraging and engagement member communities in planning for an aging population. We educate and work with our member communities to develop action plans in preparation for aging populations.
$104,035 spent29% of program spendingRegional data website for pioneer valley is where staff will lead management process for user friendly website to access and use a wide variety of data for the pioneer valley, building a common data platform that is usable to multiple parties and municipalities. Topic in the website will include information about the people, economy, internet and local sources. This information will be accessable in one area creating a one-stop location.
$63,349 spent18% of program spendingSpringfield food policy council program works to facilitate racially equitable food and social justice by developing a local food system with urban agriculture at its center by leading or overseeing certain activities or projects.
$186,398 spent53% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $353,782.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $93k to $512k (+454%).
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: 2017 67% · 2018 85% · 2020 29% · 2024 3% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $55k → $291k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC’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
PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 72% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 46% · 2022 57% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
90% of PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $353k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $770k on record — $750k federal, $20k state.
- Department of the Interior$750k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$20k
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.
Organizations like PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC
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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pioneer Valley Planning Commission · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC?
- PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $937,750 to it, the largest being POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($298,625). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $937,750 in grants to PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER INC?
- POINT32HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $298,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIONEER VALLEY REGIONAL VENTURES CENTER 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.
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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 10 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