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Mercury Wire Products Charitable 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of MERCURY WIRE PRODUCTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DARE MASSACHUSETTS | $4,000 |
| ABBY HOUSE | $3,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| YOU INC | $2,500 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FESTIVAL OF GIVING TREES | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $1,000 |
| TARENTINO CHARITABLE FUND | $1,000 |
| LEICESTER SENIOR CENTER | $1,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $513 |
| SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +51% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LRLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +136%
- AOALS ONE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +95%
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC3× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- CCCUMBERLAND COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FHFIRST HELP INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -1%
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 foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
Lberi's mission is to serve humanity through research on the prevention, treatment, and cure of respiratory disease and support the research and efforts of lbri.
The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. as the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The mission of the head for the cure foundation (hftc) is threefold: to build awareness, raise funding, and inspire hope for the community of brain cancer patients, their families, friends, caregivers and other supporters, while…
Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.
Striving to help cure neurological diseases, while empowering communities to build a healthier world.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
1) development & validation of new measures 2) translation & adaption of tools for use in international research 3) technical assistance in support of patient -based tools in a variety of specific applications 4) education & training in…
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dare Massachusetts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 46 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 DARE MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS ONE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERISE INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST HELP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: AbbVie Foundation · The White Companies Charitable Trust · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mercury Wire Products Charitable 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.
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Als One 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
- Rosie's Place 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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