Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
Boston, MA · EIN 04-2967537. Reported 50 grants totalling $2,501,985 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 48% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $29,600; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $474,418. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Communities Action Network Inc | Framingham, MA | $1,199,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $487,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston, MA | $150,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc | Boston, MA | $133,525 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Worcester Interfaith | Worcester, MA | $49,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Resist Inc | Somerville, MA | $47,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pioneer Valley Project Inc | Springfield, MA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Asian American Resource Workshop Inc | Dorchester, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ayni Institute Inc | Revere, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brockton Interfaith Community Inc | Brockton, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alternatives for Community and Enviroment Inc | Roxbury, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Colaborativa Inc | Chelsea, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Essex County Community Organization | Lynn, MA | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Labor United Incorporated | Boston, MA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coalition for Social Justice Education Fund Inc | New Bedford, MA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coalition for a Better Acre Inc | Lowell, MA | $19,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc | Worcester, MA | $15,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Berkshire Interfaith Organizing Inc | Pittsfield, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boston Affordable Housing Coalition Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brockton Workers Alliance | Brockton, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Social Justice Education Fund Inc | New Bedford, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Interfaith Action of Southern Massachusetts | Fall River, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Interfaith Action of Southeast Massachusetts (uia) | Fall River, MA | $12,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Madison Park Development Corporation | Roxbury, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Voter Education | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Womens Christian Association | Lowell, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| True Alliance Center Inc | Mattapan, MA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lawrence Community Works Inc | Lawrence, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YMCA of Lowelllowell Alliance | Lowell, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Quincy Asian Resources Inc | Quincy, MA | $5,760 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc | Lowell, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
12 of 32 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Massachusetts Communities Action Network
Campaign for tax equity & leadership development - Third Sector New England
Delivering on Equity - Engagement for Tax Equity - Mass Association for Community Action
Advocacy for tax credits that support families - Worcester Interfaith
Delivering on Equity-Engagement for Tax Equity - La Colaborativa Inc
Delivering on Equty-Engagement for Tax Equity - Boston Medical Center
EITC work & Virtual town hall production & coalition
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | $114,332 | $39,582 |
| 2022 | 22 | $903,578 | $15,400 |
| 2023 | 5 | $692,750 | $101,800 |
| 2024 | 20 | $791,325 | $15,000 |
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 $15,000 -- 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 Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center'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.
Address of record on the latest return: 1 State Street 1250, Boston, MA, 02109.
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