How much did JOSEPH PERSKY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of JOSEPH PERSKY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

03FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $52k
$10k–50k11 grants · $187k
$50k–250k1 grant · $54k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS$54,000
MUSIC WORCESTER$30,000
THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$25,000
JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$22,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$15,000
WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$15,000
WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$10,000
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH$10,000
ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY$10,000
HANOVER THEATRE$5,000
BANCROFT SCHOOL$5,000
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 38 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$59k

Still filing today

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

WJ
WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +39%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +81%
MW
MUSIC WORCESTER
5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +75%

Funded once

JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS-ISREAL EMERGENCY FUND
one grant, 2023 · $25k
IO
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTBOSTON-ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN
one grant, 2022 · $13k
JF
JEWISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS-UKRAINE EMERGENCY FUND
one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Worcester Center for Performing

The hanover theatre seeks to ignite and nurture a passion for the performing arts in audiences and artists of today and tomorrow. in doing so we will participate fully in the revitalization of downtown worcester by bringing vistiors to the…

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Creation and operation of world class contemporary art museum and securing related funding.

Education

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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Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education

Worcester Community Cable Access

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Worcester Natural History Society Inc

Ecotarium's mission is to inspire a passion for science and nature among all members of the community through one-of-a-kind experiences, interactive exhibits, and accessible programming. as new england's leading science and nature center,…

Arts & Culture

Worcester Free Library

Public Library

Education

Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

To foster and improve the general economic conditions of the central massachusetts area through promotional and educational efforts.

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Worcester Business Development Corp

To serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the region, resulting in job creation and tax based expansion.

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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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Worcester Educational Development Founda

To support the worcester public schools, connecting students and teachers with needed resources, enriching the student experience, and advancing equity through collaboration.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bancroft School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$814,175Arts & Culture$205,000Human Services$75,000Health$66,500Philanthropy$61,000Civil Rights$52,000Food & Nutrition$45,000

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.

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.

Greater Worcester Community FoundationMA26.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth

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 organisation JOSEPH PERSKY FOUNDATION 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~60 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200066770 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 60 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Joseph Persky Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph Persky Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOSEPH PERSKY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joseph Persky Foundation?

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JOSEPH PERSKY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joseph Persky Foundation?

More from the funding graph