· Private foundation
Nathaniel Wheeler Tua-Worc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOTRE DAME HEALTH CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL | $14,150 |
| WORCESTER GARDEN CLUB | $8,214 |
| PARK SPIRIT OF WORCESTER INC | $5,453 |
| THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION | $5,000 |
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $4,180 |
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, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- WGWORCESTER GARDEN CLUB INC7× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +7% · 35% of their budget
- WCWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC2× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +51%
- REREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- WJWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +73%
- WNWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +56%
- NDNOTRE DAME ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $20k
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 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…
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.
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…
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 develop, implement, manage, operate, enhance and promote the general welfare of the people within the designated downtown worcester business improvement district (the district), through activities, programs, and services to include but…
To participate in the promotion and development of affordable housing and economic development in the main south area of worcester, massachusetts.
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.
The mission of the west stockbridge historical society is to preserve the history and culture of west stockbridge, ma through research, programming, community involvment and the restoration of the old town hall.
Worcester regional research bureau, inc. serves the public interest of greater worcester by conducting independent, non-partisan research and analysis of public policy issues to promote informed public debate and decision-making.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Preservation Worcester Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blackstone River Coalition. 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 43 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PARK SPIRIT OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BECKER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GARDEN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds WOOSOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLONEL TIMOTHY BIGELOW CHAPTER DAR ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC ↗
- Who funds WHY ME INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKSTONE RIVER COALITION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY 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 · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees
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 Nathaniel Wheeler Tua-Worc 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.
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
- New Garden Park Inc — 17% of income from government
- Notre Dame Health Care Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% 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.