· Community foundation
Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc
To enhance our worcester county community, now and in the future, through philanthropic leadership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 225 grants below total $7,259,704 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,528,859 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,269,155 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $344k
- $10k–50k145 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k31 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECOTARIUM (WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY) | $545,611 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM (DBA MUSEUM OF WORCESTER) | $457,810 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $268,240 |
| NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL (WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SO | $227,434 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $169,125 |
| QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $139,500 |
| CHURCH ON THE HILL UCC | $132,500 |
| WHITIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $123,668 |
| OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $123,500 |
| MUSIC WORCESTER INC | $119,499 |
| ABBY'S HOUSE | $114,765 |
| ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY | $104,650 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
| WEST ANDERSON CHURCH OF GOD | $100,000 |
| WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH | $87,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $12.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
245 repeat relationships — 167 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 45 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k 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
- WCWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +66%
- ACAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +248%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- HMHarrington Memorial Hospital Incone grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +14%
- MCMUSLIM COMMUNITY LINK INCone grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +206%
- RFRELIANT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +48%
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.
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…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
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…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is 2GETHER We Eat. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
342 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. 342 of the 403 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MARSTON WHITIN MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909) ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds 2GETHER WE EAT ↗
- Who funds RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID 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: United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma
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 Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc 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.
- The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Luk Crisis Center Inc — 95% of income from government
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Tri-Valley Inc — 68% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Aids Project Worcester Inc — 63% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Legendary Legacies Inc — 58% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc — 52% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc — 47% of income from government
- Charles Houston Cultural Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- Training Resources of America Inc — 44% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- World Farmers Inc — 39% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Douglas Historical Society Inc — 29% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Worcester Cultural Coaltioninc — 21% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Notre Dame Health Care Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Wcuw Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Roots Project — 12% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Orchestras Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Building Futures Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rcap Solutions Inc Formerly Rural Housing Improvement Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester County Mechanics Association Dba Mechanics Hall — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Village Afrocentric Cultural Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Crocodile River Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Creative Hub Worcester — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.