· Private foundation
Cliff and Susan Rucker Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE WORCESTER GUARDIAN INC | $100,000 |
| CHABAD OF BEVERLY-SALEM | $60,000 |
| WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES | $50,000 |
| CHABAD OF THE NORTH SHORE | $50,000 |
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| WEDF | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE NER TAMID | $9,066 |
| WCRDSA | $7,500 |
| LAMACCHIA CARES FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| MORGANS MESSAGE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| POST-22 | $5,000 |
| GALS BEST PAL INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 27 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k 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
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE NORTH SHORE2× · 2024–2025 · $100k
- WRWORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
- COCHABAD OF BEVERLY-SALEM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $64k
Funded once
- COCHABAD OF THE NORTH SHOREone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SASUMMIT AGENCY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Gloucester marine genomics institute's mission is to address critical challenges in ocean health, human health, and the environment through innovative marine biotechnology research and transformative science education. by combining…
To provide research facilities to members and to the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the massachusetts government.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grey Muzzle Organization and the most unlike its peers is Morgans Message 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 24% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 THE SOLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WORCESTER GUARDIAN INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LAPPIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORGANS MESSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALS BEST PAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS ↗
- Who funds DONEGAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MILANOF-SCHOCK LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Sweet Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Cliff and Susan Rucker 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.
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 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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