Massdevelopment Hefa Trust
Boston, MA · EIN 04-3379905. Reported 34 grants totalling $1,683,190 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Massdevelopment Hefa Trust, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 6% 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. 6% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. 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 $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $27,966 and the largest $81,191. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenway Community Health Center Inc | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc | Methuen, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Island Health Inc | West Tisbury, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Outer Cape Health Services Inc | Harwich Port, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc | Worcester, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lowell Community Health Center Inc | Lowell, MA | $99,878 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Caring Health Center Inc | Springfield, MA | $97,725 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Manet Community Health Center Inc | North Quincy, MA | $81,191 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Holyoke Health Center Inc | Holyoke, MA | $77,966 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Charles River Community Health Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Codman Square Health Center Inc | Dorchester, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc | Mashpee, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Health Connections Inc | Fitchburg, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Health Programs Inc | Gt Barrington, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dimock Community Foundation Inc Group Return | Roxbury, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dothouse Health Inc | Dorchester, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Duffy Health Center Inc | Hyannis, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc | Dorchester, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lynn Community Health Inc | Lynn, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North End Community Health Committee Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Shore Community Health Inc | Salem, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Uphams Corner Health Committee Inc | Dorchester, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Whittier Street Health Center Committere Inc | Roxbury, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Inc | Brockton, MA | $49,336 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc | Worcester, MA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Cove Community Health Center Inc | Boston, MA | $32,094 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
7 of 26 (27%) 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.
- Manet Community Health Center
$50,000 FOR CONSTRUCTION, EQUIP AND FURNISH A RADIOLOGY SUITE AT MANET'S NORTH QUINCY LOCATION. $31,191 FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A PUBLIC BATHROOM FOR THE CLINIC. - Dimock Community Health Center Inc
PROJECT RECOVER - MODIFYING AND EXPANDING DIMOCK'S HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE (PROJECT RECOVER), THE HEALTH CENTER IS SEEKING TO BEGIN IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC "MOVES" WITHIN THE RICHARDS BUILDING AND EYE SERVICES AT DIMOCK. - Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc
PURCHASE, UPGRADE AND INSTALL OUR IDENTIFICATION BADGE AND CAMERA SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AT OUR SATELLITE LOCATIONS IN CENTERVILLE, SANDWICH, FALMOUTH, AND BOURNE. - Fenway Community Health Center Inc
FUNDS ARE REQUESTED TO PURCHASE A 3D PRINTER FOR ITS DENTAL DEPARTMENT. - Duffy Health Center Inc
INSTALLATION OF A PATIENT BATHROOM MONITORING SYSTEM (LINKED TO AN ALARM SYSTEM) THAT ALERTS STAFF IF BATHROOM OCCUPANTS ARE MOTIONLESS. - Community Healthlink Inc
RENOVATION INCLUDES NEW FLOORS, FRYER, ELECTRICAL UPGRADE, DELIVERY DOOR, FOOD STORAGE RACKS, AND OTHER FOOD PREP ITEMS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | $250,000 | $50,000 |
| 2021 | 19 | $933,976 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 3 | $150,000 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 7 | $349,214 | $50,000 |
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 $50,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Massdevelopment Hefa Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 99 High Street 11TH Floor, Boston, MA, 02110.
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