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Davis Publications Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $3,000 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ARTSWORCESTER | $1,000 |
| WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| CENTRO | $1,000 |
| JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| WCUW | $500 |
| WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER | $500 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS | $500 |
| FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU | $500 |
| CROCODILE RIVER MUSIC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +46%- CHCREATIVE HUB WORCESTER4× · 2019–2023 · $16k · revenue +693%
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MHMECHANICS HALL PORTRAIT PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $3k
- TTAEAone grant, 2018 · $2k
- WPWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
To aid, encourage, advise, and correlate activities dedicated to the promotion of the arts in worcester county, as may be feasible; to integrate such activities into the total life of the community served by the council.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
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…
West Windsor Arts cultivates the artist within us all, while inspiring a creative community that is engaged, inclusive and equitable.
Music worcester brings inspiring and varied musical experiences to expanding audiences through concerts, performances and educational programs.
The mission of worcester cultural coalition is to draw on worcester's rich and diverse cultural assets to foster economic revitalization, support active, creative engagement for all and promote a strong cultural identity for greater…
Mass moca's mission is to foster and present visual and performing arts and related educational programs for the benefit of the public.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Arts Programming
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Educational Development Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is California Art Education Association. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 47 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE HUB WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSWORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds CROCODILE RIVER MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds California Art Education Association ↗
- Who funds National Art Education Association ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFTERSCHOOL PARTNER- SHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WCUW 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 · Wyman Gordon · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Coghlin Services Fund
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 Davis Publications Charitable Trust 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.
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Massachusetts Afterschool Partner- Ship Inc — 82% of income from government
- Arts Learning Inc — 77% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Wcuw Inc — 12% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Crocodile River Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Creative Hub Worcester — 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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