Black Economic Council of Massachusetts
Roxbury Crossing, MA · EIN 81-0687250. Reported 58 grants totalling $780,908 to 55 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, the IRS classifies it under social science rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE V31) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 4% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $13,500; the smallest was $5,208 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | Boston, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Market | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Owned Boston LLC | Boston, MA | $46,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Zaz Restaurant | Hyde Park, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Joseph Charles | Boston, MA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kkry Enterprise LLC | Newton, MA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bar and Kitchen Hospitality Inc | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Butterfly Falafel | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Logwood Company LLC S-Corp | Brockton, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nubian Markets | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renavest | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Onyxgroup Development | Roxbury, MA | $17,131 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Malcolm Contracting Services LLC | Dorchester, MA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cafe Juiceup | Mattapan, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Obi Ibeto - Epinec | Belmont, MA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blackbiz Development Group LLC | Boston, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rozki Ridesllc | Springfield, MA | $11,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Naturel Juicing LLC | Lowell, MA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Chapter Hi Services | Cambridge, MA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prive Parking LLC | Boston, MA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Royalty Construction Services LLC | Boston, MA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ajs Consulting LLC | Newton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Professional Sound Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caring Medical Staffing LLC | Chicopee, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coastal Construction Co | Brockton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Divine Lash Bar | Chelmsford, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Seed Sown Sales and Marketing LLC | Malden, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Hill Plumbing and Heating | Newton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gourmet Kitchen | Revere, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Industry Solutions | Braintree, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Intriguing Hair LLC | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kenell Broomstein | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| L & M Hospitality Group | Springfield, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Legacy Vending | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Martha's Vineyard Black Owned Business Directory | Vineyard Haven, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maxeymize Pr | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Phin Coffee House | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Quincy Home Health Care Corporation | Roxbury, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rosetta Languages | Malden, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shana Bryant | Roxbury, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Strong Tree Engineering | East Sandwich, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Williams Agency | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washtone Media LLC | Needham, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wwoc Media Network | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bold Skin Babe | Boston, MA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amado Energy Solutions | Attleboro, MA | $8,701 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jgj Designs | Boston, MA | $8,425 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ethnica | Randolph, MA | $7,593 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Affectus Strategies Inc | Boston, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Davis System | Hyde Park, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Andre King | Springfield, MA | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brilla Life Sciences LLC | Medford, MA | $7,050 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| That Child Got Talent Entertainment | Hyde Park, MA | $6,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Impact Energy LLC | Attleboro, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prive Parking LLC | Boston, MA | $5,208 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
2 of 55 (4%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - Zaz Restaurant
BACK OFFICE SUPPORT SERVICES - Obi Ibeto - Epinec
ELECTRIC VEHICLE PROGRAMMING - Rozki Ridesllc
FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN WITH LONGFELLOW/PASSTHROUGH GRANT - Divine Lash Bar
BACK OFFICE SUPPORT SERVICES (BOSS); NATIONAL GRID - Black Owned Boston LLC
RETAIL INCUBATION PROGRAM SPONSORSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 1 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | $81,500 | $40,750 |
| 2023 | 28 | $394,024 | $10,500 |
| 2024 | 28 | $305,384 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Black Economic Council of Massachusetts's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 28 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1234 Columbus Ave Building 3, Roxbury Crossing, MA, 02120.
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