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Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc

To enhance our worcester county community, now and in the future, through philanthropic leadership.

$9.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
286
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$565k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$11MArts & Culture$9.0MEducation$5.9MHousing & Shelter$5.2MHealth$4.8MYouth Development$3.6MFood & Nutrition$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 286 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 286 grants below total $8,568,287, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,464,123 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $895,836 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k63 grants · $457k
  • $10k–50k188 grants · $3.8M
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$16,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$274M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$565,464
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM (DBA MUSEUM OF WORCESTER)$415,100
Individual grant recipient$264,100
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$261,450
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC$203,000
MUSIC WORCESTER INC$183,004
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$173,440
QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$154,210
ABBY'S HOUSE$137,205
WHITIN COMMUNITY CENTER$120,993
WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$120,910
WORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS (HANOVER THEATRE)$119,290
JUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION$106,000
AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM (ACE)$96,500
OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES$94,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $13.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $70k → 11%HALE YMCA YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $72k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $67k → 11%HALE YMCA YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $70k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $64k → 11%HALE YMCA YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $70k → 12%HALE YMCA YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $68k → 12%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $50k → 8%WELLSTORM INC: $61k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER (LIFT) INC: $164k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER (LIFT) INC: $70k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS (AN AFFILIATE OF SEVEN HILLS FOUND: $66k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $2.5M → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $1.2M → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $659k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $651k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $175k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $141k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $135k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $135k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $100k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM (ACE): $97k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $75k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $75k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $67k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM (ACE): $56k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $53k → 11%CROCODILE RIVER MUSICAFRICAN ARTS IN EDUCATION: $50k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $50k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $50k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $50k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $198k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $100k → 11%EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $143k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $128k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $118k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER (LIFT): $106k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 11%EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM INC: $56k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $56k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $121k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $124k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $101k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $95k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $73k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
MD
TN
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 276 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

276 repeat relationships: 183 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 84 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

276
119

Total granted

$56M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+14%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WC
    WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +66%
  • AC
    AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +248%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • HM
    Harrington Memorial Hospital Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +14%
  • MC
    MUSLIM COMMUNITY LINK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +206%
  • TJ
    THE JANE FUND OF CENTRAL MA CORP
    one grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue 0% · 38% 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wheaton College

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…

Education
2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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6
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
7
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
8
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
9
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
10
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

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.

Education
11
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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12
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is High Ridge Harmony Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

404 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. 404 of the 491 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.

31
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
110
Early backer (in before they grew)
391/404
Grantees still filing
256/404
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $3,118,236 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION …AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $2,968,802 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION…THE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $823,550 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSA…FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $656,316 · Human ServicesYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $628,365 · Human ServicesSAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC: $561,577 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $558,588 · Human ServicesYMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909): $537,823 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $481,696 · Human Services+31 more: $3,338,752 · Human Services+31 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,864,313 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $1,429,957 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INCWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $774,892 · OtherUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $694,630 · Other+84 more: $14,685,375 · Other+84 moreWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $2,824,455 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER HISTORICA…WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1,514,562 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEU…WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $941,545 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL H…MUSIC WORCESTER INC: $667,968 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORCESTER INCWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $372,270 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $363,011 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $2,750,903 · Arts & Culture+19 moreQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc: $1,104,942 · EducationWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $634,752 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $548,000 · EducationBANCROFT SCHOOL: $335,499 · EducationWORCESTER ACADEMY: $280,070 · EducationAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $229,788 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES INC: $155,061 · EducationASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $149,411 · Education+10 more: $710,208 · EducationPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $740,939 · HealthEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $328,274 · HealthGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $320,000 · HealthUMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent): $282,800 · HealthELDER SERVICES OF WORCESTER AREA INC: $265,720 · HealthTRI-VALLEY INC: $207,317 · HealthWORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC: $145,400 · HealthTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC: $122,425 · HealthHarrington Memorial Hospital Inc: $120,000 · HealthAIDS PROJECT WORCESTER INC: $116,590 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $110,250 · Health+6 more: $384,684 · HealthEDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC: $968,725 · EnvironmentWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $777,070 · EnvironmentREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $646,675 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $286,824 · EnvironmentWORCESTER ROOTS PROJECT: $106,500 · Environment+1 more: $64,900 · EnvironmentABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $835,358 · Housing & ShelterGEORGE MARSTON WHITIN MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $699,365 · Housing & ShelterWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC: $311,500 · Housing & ShelterNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $246,500 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF ST LUKE'S INC ST LUKE'S GUEST HOUSE: $94,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $50,500 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$13,673,705Other$20,449,167Arts & Culture$9,434,714Education$4,147,731Health$3,144,399Environment$2,850,694Housing & Shelter$2,237,723

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $3,118,236 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $2,968,802 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,864,313 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $2,824,455 over 7y, 47% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1,514,562 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $1,429,957 over 7y, 14% of budgetQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc: $1,104,942 over 7y, 52% of budgetEDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC: $968,725 over 7y, 86% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $941,545 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $835,358 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $823,550 over 6y, 70% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $777,070 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $740,939 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetGEORGE MARSTON WHITIN MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $699,365 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $667,968 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $656,316 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $646,675 over 7y, 13% of budgetWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $634,752 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $628,365 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $610,446 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC: $561,577 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $558,588 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $548,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909): $537,823 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC: $520,550 over 7y, 10% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC: $520,100 over 7y, 13% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $515,750 over 7y, 16% of budgetCENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $488,810 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $481,696 over 7y, 0.4% of budget2GETHER WE EAT: $435,194 over 3y, 78% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $422,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetRCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC: $418,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $372,270 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $363,011 over 6y, 58% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $356,013 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBANCROFT SCHOOL: $335,499 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $331,500 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $328,274 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $325,045 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $321,540 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $320,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $313,455 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC: $311,500 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $311,250 over 2y, 17% of budgetARTSWORCESTER INC: $302,533 over 7y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $299,730 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER: $297,592 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetLEGENDARY LEGACIES INC: $297,500 over 5y, 43% of budget
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 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE MARSTON WHITIN MEMORIAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909) ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds 2GETHER WE EAT ↗
  • Who funds MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds RCAP SOLUTIONS INC FORMERLY RURAL HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
  • Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER 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.

United Way of Central…Webster Five Foundati…The Fred Harris Danie…The Fletcher Foundati…Reliant Foundation IncThe George I Alden Tr…Stoddard Charitable T…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Schwartz Charitable F…The Health Foundation…Fallon Community Heal…Community Foundation …
United Way of Central Massachusetts IncMA177.8× affinity90 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 630%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
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63get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
16rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 491 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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