Tufts Health Public Plans Inc
Canton, MA · EIN 80-0721489. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,227,488 to 39 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 Tufts Health Public Plans Inc, the IRS classifies it under mutual benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Y20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 25% 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. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,750. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $22,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $120,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc | Malden, MA | $301,500 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Caribe Communications & Publications Inc | East Boston, MA | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Disability Policy Consortium | Boston, MA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rhode Island Kids Count Inc | Pawtucket, RI | $66,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Elisha Project | Lincoln, RI | $66,500 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Project Goal Inc | Providence, RI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Organized Youth Inc | Saugus, MA | $47,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Quincy Asian Resources Inc | Quincy, MA | $42,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friendly House Inc | Worcester, MA | $37,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Healthfirst Family Care Center Inc | Fall River, MA | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence | Providence, RI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jenks Park Pediatrics Inc | Central Falls, RI | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Segunda Food Corp | Holyoke, MA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Immigrants Assistance Center Inc | New Bedford, MA | $16,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Inc | New Bedford, MA | $16,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Mass | New Bedford, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc | Worcester, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City of Fall River | Fall River, MA | $14,388 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc | New Bedford, MA | $11,350 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rhode Island Health Center Association Incorporated | Providence, RI | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Central Falls | Central Falls, RI | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston While Black | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc | Dorchester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Learning Community Charter School Inc | Central Falls, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc | Worcester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ministerio Evangelistico Lazos De Amor | Hyde Park, MA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Table Collaborative Inc | S Yarmouth, MA | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coalition for a Better Acre Inc | Lowell, MA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Union Capital Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hispanic-American Insitute Inc | Rio Rancho, NM | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Greater Plymouth County Inc | Brockton, MA | $6,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centro Las Americas Inc | Worcester, MA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Empowerment Factory | Pawtucket, RI | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Worcester Inc | West Boylston, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Olneyville Housing Corp | Providence, RI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association Southcoast Incorporated | New Bedford, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Wish Project Inc | Lowell, MA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
15 of 39 (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.
- Caribe Communications & Publications Inc
SPONSORSHIP: VARIOUS EVENTS - Project Goal Inc
Project GOAL/Central Falls Mini Pitch Build Initia - Alliance Foundation for Community Health
Community-Based COVID Vaccination Day Sponsorship - Organized Youth
SPONSORSHIP: GIVE BACK DAY - Disability Policy Consortium
SPONSORSHIP: MEMORIAL AWARDS - The Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence
SPONSORSHIP: WANSKUCK CLUBHOUSE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 39 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 | 14 | $257,500 | $11,250 |
| 2022 | 15 | $227,250 | $12,500 |
| 2023 | 22 | $341,050 | $10,250 |
| 2024 | 15 | $401,688 | $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
74% 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 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 $10,750 -- 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 Tufts Health Public Plans 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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 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: 1 Wellness Way, Canton, MA, 02021.
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