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Coghlin Family 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 $10k49 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETECTOGETHER | $104,947 |
| GOLF FIGHTS CANCER | $60,000 |
| NICHOLS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MA | $10,000 |
| WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MASS FISCAL ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| WHY MESHERRY'S HOUSE | $4,000 |
| WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU | $2,500 |
| JUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| BAY PATH UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WHITINSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST ANNES PARISH | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 27 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- DIDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +100%
- NCNICHOLS COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +8%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +34%
- WTWORCESTER TOGETHER FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
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 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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
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…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
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.…
The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…
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)
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Educational Development Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Giblin Family Foundation. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 203 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Path University ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS ONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKING FOR WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHOROIDEREMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WHY ME 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The White Companies Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Wyman Gordon
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 Coghlin Family 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.
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Spectrum Health Systems Inc — 33% of income from government
- Forest Park Zoological Society Inc — 12% of income from government
- Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bay Path University — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nichols College — 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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