· Private foundation
Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY | $18,750 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS | $15,000 |
| NEWVUE COMMUNITIES | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASS | $10,000 |
| HEALTH ALLIANCE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA | $10,000 |
| NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC | $10,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MONTACHUSETT COMMUNITY BRANCH YMCA | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG & LEOMINSTER | $5,000 |
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, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +66% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 15 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +190%
NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC7× · 2018–2025 · $66k · revenue +74%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC5× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- TCTotal Contributions Paidone grant, 2024 · $171k
- NCNORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS CHAMBER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +24% · 39% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF GROTON ELDERS INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -34%
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 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 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.
To participate in the promotion and development of affordable housing and economic development in the main south area of worcester, massachusetts.
The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Worcester Community Housing Resources' mission is to help create and preserve affordable housing and to initiate and support neighborhood revitalization in the greater Worcester area. Since 1994 we have proven ourselves to be a successful…
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.
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
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…
Provide job driven employment and educational services that expand opportunities for young people and adults in north central massachusetts and provide employers with the competitive workforce they need to succeed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growing Places Garden Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Crocker Field Restoration Committee 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 178 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 UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds WACHUSETT BUSINESS INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERNARDIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GROTON ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JUST UNDERSTAND MY POTENTIAL INC ↗
- Who funds NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Central Ma · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Nypro Foundation Inc co Nypro 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 Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Restoration Recovery Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Community Health Connections Inc — 32% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- Townsend Ecumenical Outreach Inc — 24% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.