How much did Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of RUTH H & WARREN A ELLSWORTH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $44k
$10k–50k45 grants · $761k
$50k–250k2 grants · $175k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CLARK UNIVERSITY	$97,500
UMAS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC	$77,500
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS	$42,500
ECOTARIUM	$32,500
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM	$31,250
NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC	$30,000
HANOVER THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS	$27,500
BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION INC	$26,500
CENTRO INC	$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASS	$25,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS	$25,000
QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN	$25,000
WORCESTER STATE COLLEGE	$25,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS	$20,000
CASA PROJECT INC	$20,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $526k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.7M · 77 repeat orgs$646k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.7M

$468k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+30%

Still filing today

60%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
8× · 2018–2025 · $689k · revenue +33%
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
8× · 2018–2025 · $354k · revenue +130%
WN
WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $326k · revenue +249%

Funded once

GO
GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +30%
UM
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k
HT
HANOVER THEATRE AND CONSERVATORY FO
one grant, 2022 · $45k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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

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…

Education

Worcester Business Development Corp

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…

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Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education

Worcester Community Cable Access Inc

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Wicn Public Radio Inc

To operate as a noncommercial educational fm broadcast public radio station for purposes of providing a cultural, educational, literary, scientific, artistic and musical outlet for the area community.

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Worcester District Medical Society

Medical education and medical ethics

Health

Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

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…

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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc

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…

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Worcester Area Mission Society United Church of Christ

The organization's vision is to fuel inclusion, voice, and opportunity for all. to support its charitable mission of working with individuals and community partners to inspire economic and educational equity through social change. wam ucc…

Religion

Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education

Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation 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.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/84

the rest of the field

12%

495/4,160

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 130 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/82

Grantees still filing

54/82

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,676,750Education$1,521,650Arts & Culture$924,750Human Services$525,500Community Improvement$350,750Philanthropy$251,750Health$248,250

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.

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.

Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA105.8× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Wyman Gordon · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation 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 Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

22get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

7rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines