Massachusetts Medical Society and
Waltham, MA · EIN 22-3199624. Reported 68 grants totalling $876,820 to 48 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. 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. 48 distinct organizations, with 9% 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. 29% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $700 and the largest $25,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gratis Healthcare Inc | Franklin, MA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Father Bills & Mainspring Inc | Brockton, MA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires Inc | Gt Barrington, MA | $49,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Survival Centers Inc | North Amherst, MA | $47,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Healthcare & Nutritional Goals Through Education Inc | Shrewsbury, MA | $43,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metro North Inc | Peabody, MA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Metrowest Free Medical Program Inc | Marlborough, MA | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Interfaith Social Services Inc | Wollaston, MA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Greenroots Inc | Chelsea, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Old Colony Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Brockton, MA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Family Health Center of Worcester Inc | Worcester, MA | $24,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc | Marlborough, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cooley Dickinson Health Care | Northampton, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Health Imperatives Inc | Brockton, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Addiction Referral Center Inc | Marlborough, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc | Dorchester, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Food Link Inc | Arlington, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lawrence General Hospital | Lawrence, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lynn Shelter Association Inc | Lynn, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pittsfield Community Food | Pittsfield, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Restoration Recovery Center Inc | Fitchburg, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spoonfuls Inc | Newton, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Worcester Free Care Collaborative Incorporated | Shrewsbury, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Addiction Solutions of Nantucket Inc | Nantucket, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adolescent Consultation Services Inc | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Stoneham Inc | Stoneham, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc | Brockton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Doc Wayne Youth Services Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health Care Without Walls | Wellesley, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| La Colaborativa Inc | Chelsea, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southwest Boston Senior Services Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Open Door | Gloucester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc | Leominster, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Victory Programs Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Womens Lunch Place Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Worcester Rise for Health | Worcester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Health Programs Inc | Gt Barrington, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friendshipworks Inc | Boston, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc | Framingham, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Worcester Inc | West Boylston, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sociedad Latina Inc | Roxbury, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Martin Luther King JR Family Services Inc | Springfield, MA | $2,120 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Contributions 5000 | $700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
11 of 48 (23%) 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.
- Gratis Healthcare
CARE FOR MEDICALLY UNINSURED - Change (st Anne's Free Medical Program)
QUALITY HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED - Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES - South Community Food Pantry
ADDRESSING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH - Volunteers in Medicine- Berkshires
QUALITY HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR THE UN- AND UNDERINSURED - Lawrence General Hospital
IMPROVED ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 37 of 48 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 | 20 | $285,200 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 12 | $170,000 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 12 | $141,700 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $183,500 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $96,420 | $12,500 |
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 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 $10,000 -- 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 Medical Society and'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 8 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: 860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA, 02451.
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