· Private foundation
Fels Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $376k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| ALL SAINTS ACADEMY | $116,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $60,000 |
| OUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC | $40,700 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $21,000 |
| WEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE | $20,000 |
| ST ANDREW BOBOLA CHURCH | $16,300 |
| PASSION 4 PAWS | $16,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CHARITY | $15,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GLADYS | $11,000 |
| COMMUNITY CAT CONNECTION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $316k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
75 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNICHOLS COLLEGE5× · 2018–2024 · $305k · revenue +2%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +9%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $182k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF CHESTER C CORLINone grant, 2018 · $202k
- HHHARRINGTON HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $100k
- CCCAT CONNECTION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -56% · 58% of their budget
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 promote humane treatment of animals, operate the animal shelter, and assist with the adoption of animals.
We focus on keeping pets with the people who love them. the organization has a cage-free adoption center for cats and kittens in brimfield, massachusetts. the organization also provides services and resources for local animals and…
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Purrs and Whiskers primary function is to find forever homes for cats and kittens that are abandoned, stray, owner turn in, injured/sick, and/or born in feral colonies after we have fully vetted them by spaying/neutering, vaccinating,…
Provides shelter, food, veterinary services and medicine for abandoned and stray cats. No cats are euthanized. All are placed in homes, foster homes or remain at the shelter.
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Pawsitively cats is a no-kill cat shelter in tucson for homeless cats that provides compassionate care until a loving permanent home can be found. pawsitively cats also promotes trap, neuter and release (tnr) for feral cats. pawsitively…
Animal rescue
We are a feline foster home based rescue organization providing rescue, rehoming, low-cost spay & neutur services, vaccinations, and farm colony management.
Animal Rescue
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 115 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 NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CAT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Passion 4 Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Aaf Charitable Foundation · The Janet Malser Humanities Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc · Coghlin Family Foundation · George Wells Foundation Ui · United Way of South Central Massachusetts Inc · Tonna Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · The White Companies Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fels Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fels Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Life-Skills Inc: 91% of income from government
- Center of Hope Foundation Inc: 74% of income from government
- Tri-Valley Inc: 68% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc: 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Animal Shelter 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
- Nichols College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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