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Bradley C Higgins Foundation at a glance

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Bradley C Higgins Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$451kEducation$136kHealth$85kYouth Development$60kRecreation & Sports$16kCommunity Improvement$15kPhilanthropy$13kEnvironment$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$690k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%SUPPORT OUR FINE ARTS INC FISCAL: $5k → 11%BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $25k → 9%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $30k → 11%BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $20k → 9%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $30k → 11%BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $15k → 9%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $25k → 11%BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $15k → 9%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $20k → 11%BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $10k → 9%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $5k → 11%BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $10k → 9%WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM: $5k → 11%BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $7k → 9%THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $5k → 8%HERITAGE MUSEUMS & GARDENS: $10k → 8%BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUC: $10k → 11%COTUIT ATHLETIC ASOCIATION: $5k → 8%BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATIO: $5k → 11%CREATIVE HUB WORCESTER: $10k → 11%NEW GARDEN PARK INC: $10k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $65k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER: $30k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER: $20k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $30k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $30k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $25k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $20k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$703k · 13 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$703k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+70%

Still filing today

69%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +80%
  • TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +46%
  • WH
    WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $116k · revenue +519%

Funded once

  • HM
    HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +150%
  • CH
    CREATIVE HUB WORCESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +693%
  • NG
    NEW GARDEN PARK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +861%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
3
Wheaton College

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…

Education
4
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Worcester Business Development Corp

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…

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7
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
Worcester Historical Museum

Worcester historical museum is a unique organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting worcester's history in all time periods and subject areas.

Arts & Culture
9
Western New England University

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…

Education
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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11
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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12
Cambridge College Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Museums and Gardens Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $116,000 · OtherWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INCBOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM: $103,000 · OtherBOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUMBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $50,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $13,000 · Other+10 more: $52,500 · Other+10 moreWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $202,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $132,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK U…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $24,000 · HealthTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION: $7,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCOTUIT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsTENACITY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW GARDEN PARK INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPRIDE PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$364,500Arts & Culture$214,500Education$133,000Health$34,500Recreation & Sports$21,000Community Improvement$12,000Environment$8,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $202,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $132,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $116,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOTUIT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $16,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW GARDEN PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTENACITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRIDE PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

William J McKee Jr Ch…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…The Fred Harris Danie…The Fletcher Foundati…Stoddard Charitable T…Greater Worcester Com…The George I Alden Tr…Webster Five Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…Boston Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…
William J McKee Jr Charitable FoundationMA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bradley C Higgins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bradley C Higgins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Bradley C Higgins Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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