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Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 658 MAIN STREET FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEWVUE COMMUNITIES | $25,000 |
| NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| YMCA MONTACHUSETT COMMUNITY BRANCH | $20,000 |
| ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY FITCHBURG | $12,500 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB fITCHBURGLEOMINSTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTR | $10,000 |
| FITCHBURG ACCESS TELEVISION | $10,000 |
| GINNY'S HELPING HAND | $9,895 |
| FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI | $7,500 |
| FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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 — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +105%- FSFITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +30%
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- FHFITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +76% · 28% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LSLUNENBURG SKATE PARK INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -64%
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 collect and preserve the historical record and material culture of boston's north end. also to catalog and present these resources through publications, lectures, educational programs and exhibits.
Low income elderly housing.
The Needham Historical Society (d/b/a Needham History Center & Museum) is a local non-profit whose mission is to engage and educate the community about the history of the town and its people, and to preserve the treasures of Needham's…
To provide industrial, commercial, manufacturing and warehousing facilities for the purpose of developing the growth and prosperity of the city of manchester, new hampshire.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide affordable housing in norwood, ma and other communities in norfolk county ma.
To expand economic development in north central massachusetts by providing a variety of marketing and lending opportunities to small businesses in cooperation with various federal and state agencies.
To provide affordable space for artists, performers and educators. to offer arts progamming in northampton massachusetts.
Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growing Places Garden Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clinton Historical Society. 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 38 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 53 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 NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds 658 MAIN STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW PLAYERS THEATRE GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds JUST UNDERSTAND MY POTENTIAL INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG ACCESS TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG SKATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT 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: Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · The Nypro Foundation Inc co Nypro Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Ronald M Ansin Foundation · Workers Federal Credit Union Fka Workers' Credit Union · Clementi Family Charitable Trust
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 Douglas & Isabelle Crocker 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.
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Community Health Connections Inc — 32% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 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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