· Private foundation
Davis Publications Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $3,000 |
| JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| CENTRO | $1,000 |
| WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ARTSWORCESTER | $1,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| CROCODILE RIVER MUSIC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WICN | $500 |
| WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS | $500 |
| AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $500 |
| WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 47 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 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 AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- 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 California Art Education Association ↗
- Who funds National Art Education Association ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds WCUW INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFTERSCHOOL PARTNER- SHIP INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Davis Publications Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davis Publications Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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