· Private foundation
Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $545k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF AUBURN | $250,000 |
| ECOTARIUM | $200,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH | $200,000 |
| TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN | $75,000 |
| THE HANOVER THEATRE | $70,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| AUBURN YOUTH & FAMILY SER | $25,000 |
| ARTS WORCESTER | $20,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $11,000 |
| WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH | $5,000 |
| THE WONDER MISSION | $5,000 |
| HOPE FOR WORCESTER | $5,000 |
| CTR FOR FAMILY CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF JAFFREY | $2,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF AUBU | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MWMUSIC WORCESTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +66%
- FPFranklin Pierce University2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +39%
- WNWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2024 · $349k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UMU MASSDCOE GIFT ACCTone grant, 2021 · $250k
- UCUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $250k
- AOAMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -4%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Worcester historical museum is a unique organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting worcester's history in all time periods and subject areas.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
To provide an organization devoted exclusively to the prosecution of historic preservation, antiquarian, educational, historical, literary, artisitic and monumental purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of…
The greater worcester land trust promotes the protection, stewardship and appreciation of open space to enhance the quality of life and functioning of natural systems in worcester and the region.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Franklin Pierce University ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSWORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds New England Center for Family Connection ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wyman Gordon · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Rockwell Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Worcester Youth Center Inc: 64% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc: 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc: 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc: 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- New England Center for Family Connection: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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