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Coghlin Services Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$277kHuman Services$153kHealth$112kEducation$111kYouth Development$55kArts & Culture$41kCommunity Improvement$35kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$465k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CM$29,750
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM$9,375
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL - WORCESTER$8,500
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL$7,500
YWCA - CENTRAL MA$5,500
NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER$5,000
WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION$5,000
MECHANICS HALL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ANNA MARIA COLLEGE$1,500
ARTS WORCESTER$1,500
QCC FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $250 → 11%BUILDING FUTURES INC: $500 → 11%THRIVE SUPPORT & ADVOCACY: $500 → 11%BUILDING FUTURES INC: $500 → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $500 → 11%TECHNO COPIA: $2k → 11%TECHNO COPIA: $500 → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $500 → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $350 → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $350 → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $350 → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $350 → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $350 → 11%CENTRO INC: $200 → 11%CENTRO INC: $150 → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY: $3k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $300 → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY: $250 → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $300 → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $300 → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $300 → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $300 → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $300 → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $250 → 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.
$877k · 83 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +53% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
59

Total granted

$877k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+53%

Still filing today

45%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +116%
  • HH
    Heywood Healthcare Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue ×473
  • TS
    THE SHINE INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • MC
    MA COVID RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • CF
    CHILDREN'S FRIEND SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
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
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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2
Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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3
Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc

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…

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4
Downtown Worcester Business Improvement

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…

Community Improvement
5
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Main South Community Development Corp

To participate in the promotion and development of affordable housing and economic development in the main south area of worcester, massachusetts.

Community Improvement
8
Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc

Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.

Human Services
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
Worcester Area Mission Society United Church of Christ

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…

Religion
11
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
12
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 147 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
53/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CM: $242,784 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CMYWCA - CENTRAL MA: $117,350 · OtherYWCA - CENTRAL MA+108 more: $454,993 · Other+108 moreHeywood Healthcare Inc: $25,000 · HealthTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC: $17,200 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,000 · HealthDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $7,000 · HealthEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,500 · Health+4 more: $3,300 · HealthUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10,875 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureARTSWORCESTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,700 · Arts & CultureTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC: $10,500 · EducationWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationWORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,775 · Education+2 more: $600 · EducationMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $2,750 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $2,250 · Human ServicesOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,050 · Human ServicesMCAULEY NAZARETH INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTECHNOCOPIA CO: $2,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING FUTURES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC: $500 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $350 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $4,000 · Crime & LegalDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $3,750 · Crime & LegalLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$815,127Health$72,000Philanthropy$29,000Arts & Culture$28,575Education$17,875Human Services$13,400Crime & Legal$8,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $26,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC: $17,200 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10,875 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMECHANICS HALL CORPORATION: $8,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetOAK HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $7,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6,410 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC: $5,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTSWORCESTER INC: $5,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $3,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJESSE BURKETT LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $3,650 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $2,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCAMP PUTNAM INC: $2,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMCAULEY NAZARETH INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOCOPIA CO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWICN PUBLIC RADIO INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,775 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOVE YOUR LABELS INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBECKER COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOSOX FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $500 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 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 DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK 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 ↗

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.

Stoddard Charitable TrustMA72.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Coghlin Services Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coghlin Services Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Coghlin Services Fund?

Find your warmest path to Coghlin Services Fund 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 147 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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