· Private foundation
Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc
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 $10k124 grants · $243k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP | $13,800 |
| WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC | $12,500 |
| DAY KIMBALL HEALTH CARE | $10,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY | $8,800 |
| GINNYS HELPING HAND INC | $8,800 |
| AUBURN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES FOOD PANTRY | $8,800 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHENS OF NORTHEASTERN CT | $8,800 |
| FRIENDLY HOUSE PANTRY | $8,800 |
| FOOD SHARE SOUTHBRIDGE CHARLTON & STURBRIDGE | $8,800 |
| THE HANOVER THEATRE | $7,500 |
| MILLBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| THE HANOVER THEATRE AND CONSERVATORY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $6,500 |
| MILLBURY LITTLE LEAGUE | $5,600 |
| ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 73 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +83% · 31% of their budget
- QFQVCC FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +10%
- DKDay Kimball Healthcare Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GAGrants and Contributions Paidone grant, 2024 · $161k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
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 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 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 promote, develop and expand tourism in the central massachusetts and southern worcester county region and to provide services for such promotion, development and expansion.
Town Girls Softball league, consisting of approximately 100 girls who play between April and October.
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 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.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
To provide services for disadvantaged youth
The weymouth food pantry is a neighbor-to-neighbor grassroots project aimed at ensuring food security for financially-struggling families in our town. utilizing a client choice model, we put our neighbors in charge of their own food…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vernon Hill Post 435 American Legion Fou Foundation (Prev Included Scholarship). 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 303 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 FRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds QVCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Day Kimball Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OXFORD LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds The Day Kimball Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Millbury Little League ↗
- Who funds THE TRINITY FOUNDATION DBA MARIAN ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds WATERS FARM PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING TREES FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC THE LAST GREEN VALLEY 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 · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Fallon Community Health Plan 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 Hometown Bank 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.
- Northeast Placement Services Inc — 99% of income from government
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- Waters Farm Preservation Inc — 79% of income from government
- Venture Community Services Inc — 78% of income from government
- Center of Hope Foundation Inc — 74% of income from government
- United Services Inc — 74% of income from government
- The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc — 72% of income from government
- Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Inc — 59% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% 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
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Pakachoag Acres Day Care Centerinc — 37% of income from government
- Audio Journal Incorporated — 35% of income from government
- Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group Inc — 24% of income from government
- Manchaug Pond Foundation Inc — 21% of income from government
- Webster Lake Association Inc — 20% of income from government
- Children's Advocacy Center of Franklin and North Quabbin Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation — 10% 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
- Care Central Vna & Hospice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of Sholan Farms Inc — 3% of income from government
- Woodstock Academy — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Worcester County Mechanics Association Dba Mechanics Hall — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Riseup Group Inc — 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
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Rectory School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Day Kimball Healthcare Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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