Massachusetts · Community foundation
Community Foundation of North Central Ma
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- $5.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 115
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 116
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $897,348
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 116
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $95M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Community Foundation of North Central Ma funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $839k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 108 | $4.5M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 116 | $3.9M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $4.5M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 102 | $3.9M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $2.5M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $2.1M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $1.9M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $1.9M | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster - a Nonprofit Educational | $4,487,672 | 9 | 48% |
| Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc | $2,404,912 | 9 | 47% |
| Groton Hill Music Inc | $1,246,450 | 9 | 2% |
| Detectogether Inc Formerly Known as the 15-40 Connection Inc | $1,027,682 | 3 | 52% |
| North County Land Trust Inc | $998,730 | 9 | 36% |
| Growing Places Garden Project Inc | $824,432 | 7 | 18% |
| The Doyle Field Foundation Inc | $599,384 | 9 | 91% |
| Fitchburg State University Foundation Inc | $581,039 | 9 | 4% |
| North Star Family Services Inc | $481,465 | 4 | 12% |
| Spanish American Center Inc | $408,649 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 283 grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($959k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of North Central Ma supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 24 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 193 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of North Central Ma with peer funders
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About Community Foundation of North Central Ma
- How much does Community Foundation of North Central Ma give?
- Community Foundation of North Central Ma reported 115 itemized grants totaling $4,713,751, out of $5,404,904 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 116 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of North Central Ma fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (21%), Education (17%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Community Foundation of North Central Ma's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster - a Nonprofit Educational ($4.5M), Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc ($2.4M), Groton Hill Music Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Community Foundation of North Central Ma fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of North Central Ma?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of North Central Mass Inc, Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Community Foundation of North Central Ma based?
- Community Foundation of North Central Ma is based in MA.
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