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Who funds senior services in Massachusetts? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 55 grants totaling $1.2 million went to senior services-related work in Massachusetts. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of senior services in Massachusetts, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED &1$521,168
BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC1$150,000
THE DANA HOME FOUNDATION INC1$60,000
ALFRED CHASE CHARITY FDN UI2$40,000
MARIA TOROK FOUNDATION #07385182$40,000
CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC)1$40,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN2$33,900
TTEE UW OF CHARLES F BACON3$30,000
BUSHROD H CAMPBELL & ADAH F HALL4$28,500
LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC1$25,000

Across all funders: 55 grants, $1.2 million total, median grant $8,324.

Largest recipients in Massachusetts

RecipientGrantsTotal
GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES7$574,505
GREATER LYNN SENIOR SERVICES INC4$195,200
MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES16$167,498
MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC8$92,438
SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC5$58,770
GREATER SPRINGFIELD SENIOR SERVICES INC4$41,165
SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES DBA ETHOS1$25,000
HOMESTEAD NANTUCKET2$15,000
SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES2$10,500
ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT1$10,000

Open federal opportunities addressing senior services (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Massachusetts can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "senior services"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: older adults, aging, elderly.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
HHS-2026-ACL-AOA-DASG-0012Disaster Assistance for State Units on Aging (SUAs) and Tribal OrganizationsAdministration for Community Living$30,000 to $600,00009/01/2026
PAS-25-205Stimulating Hematology Investigation: New Endeavors (SHINE) (R01 Clinical Trial National Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/06/2028
PAR-25-081National Cancer Institute's Investigator-Initiated Early Phase Clinical Trials fNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to $499,99901/07/2027
PAR-25-079Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo ImagingNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to $500,00001/07/2027
PAR-25-145Clinical Characterization of Cancer Therapy-induced Adverse Sequelae and MechaniNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-24-311Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Cancer (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Healthunspecified to $500,00001/07/2028
PAR-25-207Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize LongeNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-25-175Integration of Imaging and Fluid-Based Tumor Monitoring in Cancer Therapy (R01 CNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to $500,00001/07/2028

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 718 listings mentioning "senior services" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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