· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $1,500,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
31 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +80%
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +18% · 28% of their budget- MWMUSIC WORCESTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- WNWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $917k · revenue +56%
- NGNEW GARDEN PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +45%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $100k
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 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…
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.
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 promote, develop and expand tourism in the central massachusetts and southern worcester county region and to provide services for such promotion, development and expansion.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
To promote humane treatment of animals, operate the animal shelter, and assist with the adoption of animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 48 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.
24 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. 24 of the 42 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable 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.
- 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
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.