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Rockwell Foundation
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 $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL | $10,000 |
| WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| MUSIC WORCESTER INC | $7,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $5,000 |
| NEADS INC | $5,000 |
| PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $5,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC | $5,000 |
| CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| HANOVER THEATRE FOR THE PREFORMING ARTS | $4,000 |
| JEREMIAH'S INN INC | $4,000 |
| WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH | $3,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MA | $2,500 |
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC | $2,500 |
| SOUTHEAST ASIAN MAA COALITION INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +75%
- WYWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +123%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- WHWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- NENEW ENGLANDL BOTANIC GARDENone grant, 2023 · $10k
- WPWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +136%
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.
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…
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…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Medical education and medical ethics
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
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 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…
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.
The commission exercises the dual roles of quality assurance and encouraging continuous improvement for degree-granting institutions of higher education nationally and, as determined by the commission, internationally. through a process of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc and the most unlike its peers is Willard House & Clock Museum Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BECKER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MCPHS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS 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: The Fletcher Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Wyman Gordon · The George I Alden Trust · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts 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 Rockwell 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.
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% 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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