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The Fletcher Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.2MEducation$2.4MEnvironment$1.9MHealth$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$793kYouth Development$770kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $432k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECOTARIUM$500,000
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC$410,000
QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$253,000
CREATIVE HUB WORCESTER$250,000
ANNA MARIA COLLEGE$150,000
NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL$150,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
HANOVER THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$150,000
GREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST$105,000
WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE$103,000
WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH$100,000
WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS$100,000
WORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL INITATIVES$75,000
JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC$68,000
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 (FY18–24, $980k) 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.

area typical 8%AUDIO JOURNAL: $5k → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH INC: $12k → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $11k → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 11%GUILD OF ST AGNES: $200k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $40k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $20k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $10k → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $100k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $20k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%NEADS: $10k → 11%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE D: $10k → 11%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE D: $10k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER-LIFT: $10k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $5k → 11%VISITATION HOUSE INC: $4k → 11%VISITATION HOUSE INC: $4k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 11%CENTRO INC: $100k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $20k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $10k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $6k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $6k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $5k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $5k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $5k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $5k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $4k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER - LIFT: $15k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUN: $10k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%PLEASANT STREET NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $8k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $4k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SEERVICES: $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.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 84 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
101

Total granted

$9.6M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+30%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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× · 2018–2022 · $925k · revenue +130%
  • MW
    MUSIC WORCESTER INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $762k · revenue +38% · 38% of their budget
  • WP
    WORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $650k · revenue +259% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • WP
    WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $600k · revenue -58% · 62% of their budget
  • UM
    UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $450k
  • PW
    PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $205k · revenue -44%

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
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 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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3
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
4
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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5
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
6
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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7
Walkboston Inc

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

Unclassified
8
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
9
Aids Project Worcester Inc

Aids project worcester is a nonprofit organization in central massachusetts dedicated to ending the hiv/aids pandemic and fostering wellness through service, advocacy, prevention, education, and collaborative initiatives. we empower and…

Health
10
Worcester District Medical Society

Medical education and medical ethics

Health
11
Wellesley Community Childrens Center Inc

Provision of quality education and child care programs and services.

Human Services
12
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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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 backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionYouth Development Organizat…Community Charitable Founda…Independent Schools & Educa…Community Service Organizat…
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%14%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr13%46%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/123
the rest of the field
11%
1,568/14,683

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

122 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. 122 of the 218 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/122
Grantees still filing
84/122
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC — $450,000 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INCUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $370,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $350,000 · OtherQUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $253,000 · OtherCREATIVE HUB WORCESTER — $250,000 · Other+133 more — $5,608,500 · Other+133 moreWORCESTER ART MUSEUM — $925,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMMUSIC WORCESTER INC — $761,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORCESTER INCWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $625,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY…JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $270,500 · Arts & CultureJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INCWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $212,500 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSE…PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC — $205,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION WORCESTER IN…THE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC — $180,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $288,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreGREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST — $630,000 · EnvironmentREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $450,000 · Environment+5 more — $40,000 · EnvironmentWORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET INC — $650,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $180,000 · Community ImprovementVETERANS INC — $100,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $56,000 · Community ImprovementYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $244,500 · Human ServicesGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $67,000 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesMCAULEY NAZARETH INC — $33,000 · Human Services+10 more — $130,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $600,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $330,000 · PhilanthropyPROVISION MINISTRY INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $150,000 · EducationTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC — $150,000 · EducationBANCROFT SCHOOL — $105,000 · EducationAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $50,000 · Education+4 more — $27,500 · Education
Other$7,281,500Arts & Culture$3,467,500Environment$1,120,000Community Improvement$986,000Human Services$979,500Philanthropy$975,000Education$732,500

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 — $925,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC — $761,500 over 5y, 38% of budgetWORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET INC — $650,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST — $630,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $625,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $450,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $370,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $330,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $270,500 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetCREATIVE HUB WORCESTER — $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $244,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $220,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $212,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC — $205,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER — $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC — $188,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $180,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC — $180,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC — $122,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $115,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetBANCROFT SCHOOL — $105,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVETERANS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC — $88,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $75,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL INITIATIVES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $70,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $67,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBECKER COLLEGE — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTSWORCESTER INC — $47,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetPROVISION MINISTRY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMatthew 25 Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWORCESTER COMMUNITY CABLE ACCESS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC — $33,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMCAULEY NAZARETH INC — $33,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE HUB WORCESTER ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗

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.

Stoddard Charitable T…Greater Worcester Com…The Fred Harris Danie…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Webster Five Foundati…The George I Alden Tr…Schwartz Charitable F…Wyman GordonUnited Way of Central…Coghlin Services FundReliant Foundation IncMildred H McEvoy Foun…
Stoddard Charitable TrustMA159.9× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fletcher 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 340%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
  • Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc — 66% 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
  • Senior Connections Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% 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
  • Bridge of Faith Youth Centerinc — 22% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% 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
  • Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Worcester County 4-H Center Inc — 9% 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
  • American Antiquarian Society — 7% 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
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Sisters of Saint Ann 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
  • Neads Inc — 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
  • Creative Hub Worcester — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
34get no government money at all
21report 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 The Fletcher Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fletcher 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.

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 218 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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