· Private foundation
Bay State Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Worcester Public Schools | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DHDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC2× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +31%
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +96%- ACAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- OFOVERLOOK FOOD AWARENESS RESOURCE OF MASSACHUSETTS INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -1%
- JIJEREMIAH'S INN INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +16%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Aids project worcester is a nonprofit organization in central massachusetts dedicated to ending the hiv/aids pandemic and fostering wellness through service, advocacy, prevention, education, and collaborative initiatives. we empower and…
To provide services for disadvantaged youth
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
To establish and maintain housing for low and moderate income families in the Worcester area. Worcester Common Ground also provides income eligible individuals the opportunity to be homeowners.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
To provide counseling, homemaker services, child care worker training and education, employee assistance programs, mediation services, and companion/volunteer services to individuals, families and senior citizens.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Citizens for juvenile justice is the voice for juvenile justice reform in massachusetts. we believe that both children in the system and public safety are best served by a fair and effective system that recognizes the ways children are…
The organization is a child advocacy agency that provides information, referral services, and training to volunteers as advocates for court involved children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Render Creative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOOD AWARENESS RESOURCE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds RENDER CREATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Project Just Because Inc ↗
- Who funds SIMON SAYS GIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds QUINSIGAMOND ROWING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY NAZARETH INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds 4 Others Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE YOUR LABELS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY POETRY ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Stoddard Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bay State Savings Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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