· Private foundation
Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $422k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $518k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $103,599 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $103,599 |
| MUSIC WORCESTER INC | $103,599 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE | $103,599 |
| TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY | $103,599 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $30,000 |
| HANOVER THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $29,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES | $25,000 |
| CASA PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER | $20,000 |
| JEREMIAH'S INN | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $20,000 |
| ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 19 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k 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
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM3× · 2023–2025 · $282k · revenue +46%
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $266k · revenue +4%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE3× · 2023–2025 · $266k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- WNWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $50k
- OSOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -29%
- WNWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +100%
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…
The organization is dedicated to being the leading business organization in central massachusetts by providing valuable membership services and programs and events to its members and in advancing and advocating on behalf of economic…
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.
Worcester Community Housing Resources' mission is to help create and preserve affordable housing and to initiate and support neighborhood revitalization in the greater Worcester area. Since 1994 we have proven ourselves to be a successful…
The organization's vision is to fuel inclusion, voice, and opportunity for all. to support its charitable mission of working with individuals and community partners to inspire economic and educational equity through social change. wam ucc…
The organization's mission is to support our local community through providing accessible arts programs, community outreach, culturally focused events, and offering a safe and welcoming space and platform for other arts and…
To establish and maintain housing for low and moderate income families in the Worcester area. Worcester Common Ground also provides income eligible individuals the opportunity to be homeowners.
To stabilize and revitalize the East Side Neighborhoods that we serve in order to improve the quality of life for all those who reside or work here. We aim to reduce neighborhood blight, preserve current housing stock, increase the…
The club is established for the purpose of providing athletic exercises including golf, bowling, swimming, tennis, cross country skiing, and other out-of-door sports, and for the establishment and maintenance of facilities for the…
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…
To enhance the quality of life of all older worcester county citizens by managing community based senior programs that are comprehensive, coordinated, accessible, and to advocate the needs of older citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Mechanics Association Dba Mechanics Hall and the most unlike its peers is Willard House & Clock Museum Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 72 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 WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Wyman Gordon · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity 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.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Orchestras Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Artsworcester 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
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crocodile River 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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