Metro North Regional Employment Board
Malden, MA · EIN 04-3279555. Reported 214 grants totalling $41.3M to 79 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Metro North Regional Employment Board, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 79 distinct organizations, with 53% 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. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $24,739 and $96,253; the smallest was $5,625 and the largest $6,191,905. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abcd Company | Boston, MA | $22.0M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| La Colaborativa Inc | Chelsea, MA | $3,660,310 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| City of Malden | Malden, MA | $2,415,430 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| City of Revere | Revere, MA | $1,744,664 | 9 | 5 | 2024 |
| City of Everett | Everett, MA | $953,606 | 8 | 5 | 2024 |
| Just a Start Inc | Cambridge, MA | $540,995 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Training Inc | Andover, MA | $524,967 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| International Institute of New England Inc | Boston, MA | $501,107 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Workshops Inc | Boston, MA | $459,897 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Somerville Community Corporation Inc | Somerville, MA | $425,153 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Boston Education Skills & Training Corp | Boston, MA | $411,930 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Center for Manufacturing Technology LLC | Woburn, MA | $403,272 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Computers for People Inc | Hoboken, NJ | $395,456 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Breaktime United Inc | Boston, MA | $383,420 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hideo Sasaki Foundation | Boston, MA | $358,225 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Cambridge | Cambridge, MA | $356,017 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greater Lawrence Technical High Sch | Andover, MA | $345,459 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Chelsea | Chelsea, MA | $321,585 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Malden | Malden, MA | $251,965 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Neighborhood Developers Inc | Chelsea, MA | $237,058 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Shawsheen Valley Tech High School | Billerica, MA | $231,784 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Somerville Center for Adult Learning | Sommerville, MA | $229,468 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Shore Wib | Salem, MA | $203,202 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Somerville | Somerville, MA | $196,675 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Greater Lowell Wib | Lowell, MA | $192,182 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cambridge Public Access Corporation Inc | Cambridge, MA | $179,970 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Macir | Boston, MA | $177,212 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Comunidad Inc | Everett, MA | $161,856 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Merrimack Valley Workforce Investment Board Inc | Lawrence, MA | $156,040 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Building Mass Careers Inc | Woburn, MA | $149,194 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Essex North Shore Agricultural Technical School | Hathorne, MA | $148,055 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Reading Public Schools | Reading, MA | $142,403 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New England Center for Arts & Technology Inc | Boston, MA | $132,836 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Burlington Public Schools | Burlington, MA | $130,725 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New England Expert Tech | Greenfiled, MA | $127,066 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Action for Equity Inc | Dorchestr Ctr, MA | $125,103 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Vocational Service Inc | Boston, MA | $117,029 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Digital Ready Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $113,777 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc | Boston, MA | $109,997 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Woburn Public Schools | Woburn, MA | $86,553 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mack Tech | Westford, MA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Associated Builders and Contractors Inc | Woburn, MA | $79,334 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Digital Inclusion Alliance | Columbus, OH | $73,695 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Central Workforce Board | Worcester, MA | $72,627 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Welcome Project Inc | Somerville, MA | $62,106 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wellspring House Inc | Gloucester, MA | $60,781 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Technical Manufacturing Corp | Durham, CT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Women Encouraging Empowerment Inc | Revere, MA | $59,204 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc | Boston, MA | $58,088 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cambridge Housing Authority | Cambridge, MA | $57,717 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sperling Interactive | Salem, MA | $56,664 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pathways Adult Education & Training Inc | Lynn, MA | $50,811 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whittier Regional Vocational Tech High School | Haverhill, MA | $49,623 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Middlesex Community College | Lowell, MA | $43,986 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bunker Hill Community College | Boston, MA | $38,722 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Boston Centerless | Woburn, MA | $36,748 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Berkshire Manufactured Products | Newburyport, MA | $36,590 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boston Private Industry Council Inc the | Boston, MA | $35,290 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Metro Southwest Workforce Board Inc | Marlborough, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Table Talk Pies | Worcester, MA | $26,082 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nps Minuteman Tech | Lexington, MA | $21,796 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glouster Highschool | Gloucester, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Society of Manufacturing Engineers | Southfield, MI | $18,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bio Techne | Devens, MA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chelsea Education Foundation Inc | Chelsea, MA | $17,585 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Berkshire County Regional Employment Board | Pittsfield, MA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Malden Public Schools | Malden, MA | $15,077 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Epic Enterprises Incorporated | Dundas, MN | $14,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union Square Main Streets Inc | Somerville, MA | $12,229 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Quabbin Wire & Cable | Ware, MA | $9,676 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lambert Leadership Coaching | Manchester, MA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sperling Interactive | Salem, MA | $7,499 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Somerville Main Street Inc | Somerville, MA | $7,417 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Franklin Hampshire Workforce Board | Greenfield, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rolls Royce Naval Marine Inc | Walpole, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Viant Medical | Brimfield, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Masshire Metro South Workforce Board | Norwood, MA | $6,730 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
49 of 79 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Abcd Company
Job Training and Placement
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 32 of 79 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 33 | $5,144,699 | $39,966 |
| 2021 | 33 | $5,925,803 | $48,436 |
| 2022 | 46 | $8,273,504 | $46,976 |
| 2023 | 48 | $10.4M | $52,998 |
| 2024 | 54 | $11.6M | $56,011 |
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
99% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Metro North Regional Employment Board's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 46 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 8 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: 350 Main Street 620, Malden, MA, 02148.
EIN 04-3279555 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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