The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 22-3207958. Reported 185 grants totalling $5,212,116 to 51 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. For The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S99Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 4% 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. 98% 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 $25,810. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $37,600; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $72,154. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass Metrowest Inc | Worcester, MA | $199,170 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sister Assoc | Boston, MA | $191,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Western Massachusetts Inc | W Springfield, MA | $187,964 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay Inc | Boston, MA | $186,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Girls Incorporated of Lynn | Lynn, MA | $186,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc | Lawrence, MA | $181,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Partners for Youth With Disabilities | Boston, MA | $171,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Human Development Inc | Springfield, MA | $166,570 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Evkids Inc | Dorchester, MA | $159,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Railroad Street Youth Project | Gt Barrington, MA | $151,970 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh | Boston, MA | $148,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| L U K Crisis Center Inc | Fitchburg, MA | $148,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Falmouth Volunteers in Public Schools Inc | Falmouth, MA | $143,740 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Raw Art Works Inc | Lynn, MA | $131,805 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bbbs of Franklin County | Greenfield, MA | $125,810 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Enroot Inc | Cambridge, MA | $124,122 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holyoke Inc | Holyoke, MA | $122,640 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Old Colony Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Brockton, MA | $122,640 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Literations Corp | Boston, MA | $120,474 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Teamwork Inc | Lowell, MA | $117,141 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston Partners in Education Inc | Boston, MA | $102,475 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Silver Lining Mentoring Inc | Boston, MA | $98,809 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chica | Quincy, MA | $95,143 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Love Transforming Community | Brockton, MA | $92,373 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Associates for Human Services Inc | Taunton, MA | $91,810 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| 18 Degrees Inc | Pittsfield, MA | $91,475 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New North Citizens Council | Springfield, MA | $91,141 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Centerboard Inc | Lynn, MA | $90,394 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Melrose Alliance Against Violence | Melrose, MA | $89,475 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc | Boston, MA | $85,640 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hyde Square Task Force | Jamaica Plain, MA | $84,145 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Big Brother-Sister Association of Boston | Waltham, MA | $82,310 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston Project Ministries Inc | Dorchester, MA | $77,310 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Coaching for Change Inc | Taunton, MA | $77,310 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lightworks Collective Inc | Holyoke, MA | $77,310 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth Development Organization Inc | Lawrence, MA | $77,310 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| African Community Education Program | Worcester, MA | $76,660 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Linked Mentoring Inc | Marlborough, MA | $75,640 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Businesses United in Investing Lending and Development | Redwood City, CA | $68,145 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Crossroads for Kids Inc | Duxbury, MA | $68,145 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Positive Action Against Chemical Addiction Inc | New Bedford, MA | $68,145 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc | E Bridgewtr, MA | $68,145 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Dream Program Inc | E Fairfield, VT | $68,145 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Springfield School Volunteers Inc | Springfield, MA | $47,495 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Girls Inc of the Valley | Holyoke, MA | $38,145 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts Inc | Springfield, MA | $38,145 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Follow My Steps Foundation Inc | Springfield, MA | $31,815 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Life Transforming Leadership Foundation | Brockton, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mother Caroline Academy and Education Center | Dorchester, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metro North Inc | Peabody, MA | $19,815 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Boston Education Development Foundation Inc | Roxbury, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
49 of 51 (96%) 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.
- Big Brother Big Sister of Western Massachusetts Inc
TO START OR EXPAND YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAMS ACCORDING TO CURRENT BEST PRACTICES AND FOR PURPOSES INCLUDING ADVANCING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, SELF-ESTEEM, SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. - Bbbs of Central Ma
TO START OR EXPAND YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAMS ACCORDING TO CURRENT BEST PRACTICES AND FOR PURPOSES INCLUDING ADVANCING ACADEMIC PERFORMACE, SELF-ESTEEM, SOCIAL COMPENTENCE AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 51 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 | 43 | $1,037,700 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 47 | $1,289,600 | $26,000 |
| 2023 | 48 | $1,574,000 | $30,810 |
| 2024 | 47 | $1,310,816 | $25,665 |
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
97% 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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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 $25,810 -- 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 The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc'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: 75 Kneeland Street 11TH Floor, Boston, MA, 02111.
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