· Private foundation
David R Grenon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMASS MEMORIAL | $50,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $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 |
| WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 103 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David R Grenon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David R Grenon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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