· Private foundation
Bradley C Higgins Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +80%
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +46%- WHWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC7× · 2017–2023 · $116k · revenue +519%
Funded once
- HMHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +150%
- CHCREATIVE HUB WORCESTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +693%
- NGNEW GARDEN PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +355%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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)
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
To provide academically excellent, time-efficient and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Museums and Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Willard House & Clock Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 19. 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 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds COTUIT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE HUB WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds NEW GARDEN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MCPHS UNIVERSITY ↗
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: William J McKee Jr Charitable Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bank of America 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 Bradley C Higgins Foundation 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.
- Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
- New Garden Park Inc — 17% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Creative Hub Worcester — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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