· Private foundation
Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc
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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASS | $10,000 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA | $10,000 |
| HEALTH ALLIANCE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS | $5,000 |
| THE ARC OF OPPORTUNITY | $5,000 |
| MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $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 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 +66% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- HHHeywood Healthcare Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue ×473
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.
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.
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 BERNARDIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GROTON ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds JUST UNDERSTAND MY POTENTIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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