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The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$18MEnvironment$2.4MHealth$210kEducation$163kCommunity Improvement$100kHuman Services$61kHousing & Shelter$60kPhilanthropy$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$1,500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%WGBH: $155k → 16%BANCROFT SCHOOL: $50k → 11%WGBH: $100k → 16%NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER: $20k → 11%NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER: $20k → 11%NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER: $20k → 11%HANOVER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.5M → 11%MUSIC WORCESTER: $250k → 11%MUSIC WORCESTER: $250k → 11%WORCESTER CULTURAL COALITION: $100k → 11%WORCESTER CULTURAL COALITION: $100k → 11%WORCESTER CULTURAL COALITION: $100k → 11%HANOVER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 11%WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50k → 11%VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION CARE: $15k → 11%ECOTARIUM: $917k → 11%ECOTARIUM WORCESTER MA: $100k → 11%NEW GARDEN PARK INC: $100k → 11%U MASS MEMORIAL RHEUMATOLOGY: $23k → 11%U MASS MEMORIAL RHEUMATOLOGY: $23k → 11%U MASS MEMORIAL RHEUMATOLOGY: $23k → 11%ARTS WORCESTER: $50k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MA: $50k → 11%ARTS WORCESTER: $50k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $2.0M → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1.5M → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1.5M → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1.5M → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1.2M → 11%AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $1.0M → 11%AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $1.0M → 11%AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $1.0M → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1.0M → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $1.0M → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $900k → 11%WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $600k → 11%WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $500k → 11%WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $500k → 11%ABBY'S HOUSE: $50k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20k → 11%WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1.2M → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANICAL: $531k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANICAL: $501k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANICAL: $471k → 11%WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $285k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 31 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
10

Total granted

$22M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+116%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +80%
  • WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +18% · 28% of their budget
  • MW
    MUSIC WORCESTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • WN
    WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $917k · revenue +56%
  • NG
    NEW GARDEN PARK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +207%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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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2
Worcester County Arts Council Inc

To aid, encourage, advise, and correlate activities dedicated to the promotion of the arts in worcester county, as may be feasible; to integrate such activities into the total life of the community served by the council.

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3
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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4
Worcester Regional Tourism and Visitors Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
5
Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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6
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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7
Worcester Public Library Foundation

The foundation's mission is to enhance the public visibility and to raise public and private funds to ensure the continuing vitality of the worcester public library.

Philanthropy
8
Worcester Regional Research Bureau Inc

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.

Public Benefit
9
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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10
Creative Hub Worcester

The organization's mission is to support our local community through providing accessible arts programs, community outreach, culturally focused events, and offering a safe and welcoming space and platform for other arts and…

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11
Downtown Worcester Business Improvement

To develop, implement, manage, operate, enhance and promote the general welfare of the people within the designated downtown worcester business improvement district (the district), through activities, programs, and services to include but…

Community Improvement
12
Worcester County Humane Society Inc

To promote humane treatment of animals, operate the animal shelter, and assist with the adoption of animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Abby Kelley Foster House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $11,200,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $1,010,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUMWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $916,655 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INCMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $446,500 · Arts & CultureHANOVER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,600,000 · OtherHANOVER THEATER FOR…Individual grant recipient: $1,503,750 · OtherIndividual grant re…WGBH: $265,000 · OtherWGBH+22 more: $551,950 · Other+22 moreAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $3,000,000 · EducationAMERICAN ANTIQU…+1 more: $52,000 · EducationWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,500,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentNEW GARDEN PARK INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $11,500 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$14,073,155Other$3,920,700Education$3,052,000Environment$1,510,000Community Improvement$100,000Housing & Shelter$60,000Food & Nutrition$11,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $11,200,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,500,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $1,010,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $916,655 over 1y, 14% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWORCESTER CULTURAL COALTIONINC: $300,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetARTSWORCESTER INC: $100,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetNEW GARDEN PARK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBANCROFT SCHOOL: $52,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTENACITY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMECHANICS HALL CORPORATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER CULTURAL COALTIONINC ↗
  • Who funds ARTSWORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW GARDEN PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗

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.

Ruth H & Warren a Ell…The Fred Harris Danie…Stoddard Charitable T…The Fletcher Foundati…Greater Worcester Com…Wyman GordonSchwartz Charitable F…J Irving & Jane L Eng…Tonna Charitable TrustThe George I Alden Tr…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…Webster Five Foundati…
Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth FoundationMA36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Wyman Gordon · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees · Tonna Charitable Trust · The George I Alden Trust · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
  • Worcester Cultural Coaltioninc: 21% of income from government
  • New Garden Park Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Preservation Worcester Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Music Worcester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc: 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Worcester County Horticultural Society: 2% of income from government
  • Artsworcester Inc: 2% 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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