· Private foundation
Joseph Persky Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS | $54,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART - JILL MEDVEDOW FUND | $20,000 |
| JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $18,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| MUSIC WORCESTER | $15,000 |
| GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR CIVIC FRIENDSHIP | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - TROPICAL STORM RELIEF | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +14%- WJWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +88%
- MWMUSIC WORCESTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS-ISREAL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IOINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTBOSTON-ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGNone grant, 2022 · $13k
- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS-UKRAINE EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
The 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…
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…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
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 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 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.
To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…
To provide an organization devoted exclusively to the prosecution of historic preservation, antiquarian, educational, historical, literary, artisitic and monumental purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of…
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARTSWORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Wyman Gordon
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph Persky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Persky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc: 15% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc: 7% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc: 5% 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
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 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
How this is measured
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