· Private foundation
The Albert J Gifford Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $26,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTERAL MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO WESTGREATER | $10,000 |
| HANOVER THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS | $8,000 |
| SHREWSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER | $5,000 |
| INDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER (ISW) | $2,000 |
| DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $94k) 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 +68% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2024 · $230k · revenue +61%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $179k · revenue +46%- JIJEREMIAH'S INN INC3× · 2019–2022 · $26k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- GWGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FDone grant, 2020 · $35k
- YIYOU INCone grant, 2018 · $20k
WORCESTER ART MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -26%
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 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…
Provision of quality education and child care programs and services.
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 stabilize and revitalize the East Side Neighborhoods that we serve in order to improve the quality of life for all those who reside or work here. We aim to reduce neighborhood blight, preserve current housing stock, increase the…
The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
To provide services for disadvantaged youth
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.
Medical education and medical ethics
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mustard Seed Catholic Worker Community 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 60 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY NAZARETH INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN 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: The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Wyman Gordon · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees
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 The Albert J Gifford 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.
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 62% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 34% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 15% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 6% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 5% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 5% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% 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.
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