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Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity at a glance

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Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$756kEducation$622kHealth$295kHuman Services$221kHousing & Shelter$158kPhilanthropy$115kYouth Development$94kFood & Nutrition$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $422k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $518k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY$103,599
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$103,599
MUSIC WORCESTER INC$103,599
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE$103,599
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$103,599
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$30,000
HANOVER THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$29,000
WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION$25,000
CASA PROJECT INC$25,000
BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$20,000
JEREMIAH'S INN$20,000
ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE$20,000
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HMEA - HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSN: $5k → 7%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $11k → 11%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $8k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $6k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $4k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $20k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $8k → 11%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $18k → 11%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%NEADS INC: $10k → 11%NEADS INC: $10k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30k → 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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 36 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
16

Total granted

$2.1M
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

83%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $282k · revenue +46%
  • TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $266k · revenue +4%
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $266k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • WN
    WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • OS
    OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -29%
  • WN
    WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +100%
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.

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Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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2
Worcester Business Development Corp

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…

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3
Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

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…

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4
Worcester County Arts Council Inc

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.

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5
Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc

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…

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6
Worcester Area Mission Society United Church of Christ

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…

Religion
7
Creative Hub Worcester

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…

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8
Worcester Common Ground Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Worcester East Side Community Development Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Worcester Country Club

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…

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11
Worcester Cultural Coaltioninc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Worcester County Commission On Aginginc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Mechanics Association Dba Mechanics Hall; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
22/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $265,817 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $153,599 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHCAREHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METROWEST: $80,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METROWESTUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $80,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC: $55,000 · OtherWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $50,000 · Other+38 more: $565,500 · Other+38 moreWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $281,641 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $265,817 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORCESTER INCWORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL: $45,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASS…WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $71,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $265,817 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA…OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SKY …JEREMIAH'S INN INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'…WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER…NEADS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INCAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN C…MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMUSTARD S…HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $18,000 · HealthGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $18,000 · HealthPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $10,000 · HealthVNA Care Network Inc: $5,000 · HealthREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $18,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,249,916Arts & Culture$688,458Education$265,817Human Services$214,500Health$51,000Environment$40,000Housing & Shelter$38,000

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 ART MUSEUM: $281,641 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $265,817 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $265,817 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $265,817 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $58,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC: $55,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEADS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARTSWORCESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCROCODILE RIVER MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVNA Care Network Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICN PUBLIC RADIO INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPAWFECT LIFE RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORCESTER EARN A BIKE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Greater Worcester Com…The George I Alden Tr…Webster Five Foundati…The Fred Harris Danie…The Fletcher Foundati…Stoddard Charitable T…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Schwartz Charitable F…Wyman GordonUnited Way of Central…Berkshire Bank Founda…Rockland Trust Charit…
Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA79.1× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.
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How do I get to Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity?

Find your warmest path to Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 72 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-PF 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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