· Private foundation
Rockwell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC | $5,000 |
| NEADS INC | $5,000 |
| CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $5,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC | $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 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- NENEW ENGLANDL BOTANIC GARDENone grant, 2023 · $10k
- WHWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- WPWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +136%
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.
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…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 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 NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND 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 DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MCPHS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC ↗
- 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 EDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rockwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rockwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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