· Private foundation
Coghlin Services Fund
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 $10k38 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CM | $29,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $9,375 |
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL - WORCESTER | $8,500 |
| UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| YWCA - CENTRAL MA | $5,500 |
| WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER | $5,000 |
| MECHANICS HALL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ARTS WORCESTER | $1,500 |
| ANNA MARIA COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| QCC FOUNDATION | $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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +116%
- HHHeywood Healthcare Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +108%
- TSTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
- MCMA COVID RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $9k
- CFCHILDREN'S FRIEND SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $7k
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 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…
Worcester Community Housing Resources' mission is to help create and preserve affordable housing and to initiate and support neighborhood revitalization in the greater Worcester area. Since 1994 we have proven ourselves to be a successful…
To develop, implement, manage, operate, enhance and promote the general welfare of the people within the designated downtown worcester business improvement district (the district), through activities, programs, and services to include but…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
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…
To participate in the promotion and development of affordable housing and economic development in the main south area of worcester, massachusetts.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
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 vision is to fuel inclusion, voice, and opportunity for all. to support its charitable mission of working with individuals and community partners to inspire economic and educational equity through social change. wam ucc…
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 massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 147 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
- Who funds MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds ARTSWORCESTER 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: Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Wyman Gordon · The Hanover Insurance Group 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 Coghlin Services Fund 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
- Life-Skills Inc — 91% of income from government
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Learn to Cope Inc — 89% of income from government
- Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Christopher House Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Building Futures Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line 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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