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Stoddard Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2022
152
Grants FY2022
13
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$5.8MEducation$3.2MHuman Services$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.4MHealth$1.2MEnvironment$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.1MOther$0
02FY2022 · 152 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k94 grants · $254k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $673k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$500,000
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$500,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$350,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$350,000
HANOVER THEATRE AND CONSERVATORY FO$300,000
ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ($250,000
PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC$200,000
GUILD OF ST AGNES$200,000
JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC$140,000
COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC$125,000
NOTRE DAME ACADEMY$100,000
VETERANS INC$100,000
WORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET$100,000
NEW GARDEN PARK - FISCAL AGENT FOR$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$90,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $5k → 8%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 17%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 23%CAPE ABILITIES: $5k → 8%SALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $250k → 11%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 23%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES: $30k → 7%CAPE ABILITIES: $4k → 8%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 17%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 23%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSN: $10k → 7%CAPE ABILITIES: $2k → 8%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES: $10k → 7%SALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 8%SALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $8k → 11%SALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $5k → 11%SALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $5k → 11%SALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $5k → 11%AUDIO JOURNAL: $3k → 11%AUDIO JOURNAL: $3k → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $2k → 11%GUILD OF ST AGNES: $200k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $60k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $30k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $30k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $5k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $5k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $5k → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $100k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%NEADS: $15k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $200k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $200k → 11%CENTRO INC: $100k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $15k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUN: $25k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMM: $10k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $3k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUN: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 100 repeat orgs$3.8M 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 +24% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2022, 30 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
89

Total granted

$14M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+24%

Still filing today

65%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +85%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $748k · revenue +46%
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $510k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • FH
    FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +60%
  • FH
    FRIENDLY HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +39%
  • UM
    UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
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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5
Worcester County Horticultural Society

New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.

Environment
6
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
7
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
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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9
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
10
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
11
Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development Inc

The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.

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12
Worcester Country Club

The club is established for the purpose of providing athletic exercises including golf, bowling, swimming, tennis, cross country skiing, and other out-of-door sports, and for the establishment and maintenance of facilities for the…

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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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsSenior Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Arts CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Developmental Disabilities …Military Veterans SupportLocal Food System Organizat…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Christian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Food PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Construc…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsPublic Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr14%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr14%57%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/144
the rest of the field
11%
4,713/42,214

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

139 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. 139 of the 237 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/139
Grantees still filing
98/139
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $748,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCYMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS — $740,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTSTOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN — $600,000 · OtherTOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDENWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $510,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC — $350,000 · OtherHANOVER THEATRE AND CONSERVATORY FO — $300,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC — $290,000 · Other+122 more — $3,667,250 · Other+122 moreWORCESTER ART MUSEUM — $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMMUSIC WORCESTER INC — $1,009,750 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORCESTER INCWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $652,500 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUMWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCI…PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC — $205,000 · Arts & CultureJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $177,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $467,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $401,000 · EducationAMERICAN …TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $310,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …WORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $271,000 · EducationWORCESTER…BANCROFT SCHOOL — $159,500 · EducationBANCROFT …ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationASSUMPTIO…+5 more — $35,000 · EducationYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CENT…SALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $283,000 · Human ServicesSALEM COM…GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesGUILD OF …JEREMIAH'S INN INC — $135,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'…FRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY …CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO LA…OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SKY …+14 more — $197,000 · Human Services+14 moreWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $807,500 · PhilanthropyWORCESTER…GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $701,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER W…+1 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyWORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $160,000 · Community ImprovementVETERANS INC — $102,000 · Community ImprovementNEW GARDEN PARK INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC — $40,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $43,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST — $340,000 · EnvironmentREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $30,000 · Environment+8 more — $42,250 · Environment
Other$7,705,250Arts & Culture$5,011,250Education$1,576,500Human Services$1,515,000Philanthropy$1,511,500Community Improvement$895,000Environment$412,250

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM — $2,000,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC — $1,009,750 over 4y, 30% of budgetWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $807,500 over 4y, 41% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $748,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $701,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $652,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $510,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $500,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetWORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET INC — $500,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $401,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $400,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST — $340,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $310,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC — $290,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSALEM COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $283,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $271,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC — $205,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER — $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $177,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC — $167,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $160,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBANCROFT SCHOOL — $159,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $140,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $140,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $140,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $135,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER — $121,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetVETERANS INC — $102,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBECKER COLLEGE — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC — $96,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC — $59,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetINDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER — $52,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER COMMUNITY CABLE ACCESS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNEW GARDEN PARK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVITY EXPLORED INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC — $40,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC — $37,000 over 2y, 15% of budget
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.

The Fletcher Foundati…Greater Worcester Com…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…The George I Alden Tr…The Fred Harris Danie…Webster Five Foundati…Schwartz Charitable F…Wyman GordonUnited Way of Central…Coghlin Services FundMildred H McEvoy Foun…Hoche-Scofield Founda…
The Fletcher FoundationMA159.9× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stoddard Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
  • Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester — 60% of income from government
  • Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Wachusett Greenways Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
  • Audio Journal Incorporated — 35% of income from government
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
  • New Garden Park Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Wcuw Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Roots Project — 12% of income from government
  • Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Salem Community Corporation — 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn 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
  • Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Assumption University — 0% of income from government
  • Creative Hub Worcester — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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 Stoddard Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Stoddard Charitable Trust 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 237 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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