· Private foundation
David R Grenon 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 $10k38 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL | $50,000 |
| UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| MBI | $10,000 |
| PARTNER'S IN CHARITY | $5,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL | $5,000 |
| ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
| WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
63 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 9 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- AUASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $734k · revenue +9%
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +50%
- AKABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $33k
- CCCAPE COD HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $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.
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…
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…
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)
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 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.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Medical education and medical ethics
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
To operate as a noncommercial educational fm broadcast public radio station for purposes of providing a cultural, educational, literary, scientific, artistic and musical outlet for the area community.
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…
Scholarships for medical students
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Francis Community Health Care 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 103 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 ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds VISITATION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION ↗
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: The Fletcher Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Wyman Gordon · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Coghlin Services Fund · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation
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 David R Grenon 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.
- 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
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 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
- Assumption University — 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.