How much did THE FLETCHER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE FLETCHER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

honor patriciamary unsolicitedcapital equipmentwarner unsolicitiedallen unsolicitedproseed

2019

santa clausclaus mattclaus maryclaus andrewclaus ethanclaus wsfclaus justin

2020

covidcrisisreplenish landland acquisitionemergencyfood bankgreater worcester

2021

repairoaklandnewestgreaterharvestfood bankworcester animal

2022

unsolicited grants-ethangrants-ethan fletchunsolicited grant-andrewgrant-andrew fletchbettercourtesy trusteetrustee allen

2024

massrootsrisegreater worcesterfood bankmusicarts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$73M

Total assets

Largest grants

ECOTARIUM$500,000
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC$410,000
QUINSIGAMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$253,000
CREATIVE HUB WORCESTER$250,000
NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL$150,000
HANOVER THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$150,000
WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC$150,000
ANNA MARIA COLLEGE$150,000
GREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST$105,000
WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE$103,000
WORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET$100,000
WORCESTER CENTER FOR CRAFTS$100,000
WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL INITATIVES$75,000
JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC$68,000

02The need

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, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.2M · 86 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +69% for the ones you funded once.

86 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109

Total granted

$8.2M

$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+69%

Still filing today

56%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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 · $775k · revenue +312%
GW
GREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST
6× · 2018–2024 · $580k · revenue +88%
MW
MUSIC WORCESTER INC
5× · 2018–2024 · $562k · revenue +75% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

SS
SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED
one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
WP
WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +113% · 31% of their budget
HT
HANOVER THEATRE AND CONSERVATORY FO
one grant, 2022 · $205k

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.

Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc

Our mission is to help create and preserve affordable housing and to initiate and support neighborhood revitalization in the greater Worcester area.

—

Wellesley Media Corporation

The Wellesley Media Corporation is an independent non-profit corporation that supports the informing of Wellesley citizens with regards to Town civic, cultural, and community matters on two local cable channels.

Education

Worcester Business Development Corp

To serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the region, resulting in job creation and tax based expansion.

—

Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

To foster and improve the general economic conditions of the central massachusetts area through promotional and educational efforts.

—

Worcester Center for Performing

The hanover theatre seeks to ignite and nurture a passion for the performing arts in audiences and artists of today and tomorrow. in doing so we will participate fully in the revitalization of downtown worcester by bringing vistiors to the…

Arts & Culture

Greater Worcester Community Foundation

Greater worcester community foundation's mission is to build healthy and vibrant communities in central massachusetts. the foundation works with donors, builds charitable endowments, and provides support to nonprofits in the area.

Philanthropy

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.

—

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

Worcester East Side Community

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…

Housing & Shelter

Walkboston Inc

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

Unclassified

Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture

Worcester Area Mission Society

The organization's mission is to work with individuals and community partners to inspire economic and educational equity through social change. the wams vision is to fuel inclusion, voice, and opportunity for all.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Health Center of Worcesterinc and the most unlike its peers is Bancroft School. 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.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1.0%1/102

the rest of the field

1,359/14,704

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.

05the grantee network

101 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

98/101

Grantees still filing

81/101

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,427,537Arts & Culture$2,564,500Environment$1,020,000Education$675,500Community Improvement$636,000Human Services$370,000Philanthropy$345,000

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.

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 TrustMA141.5× affinity64 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 · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth · The George I Alden Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Wyman-Gordon Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Coghlin Services Fund

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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely 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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 815178390 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WORCESTER PUBLIC MARKET, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Fletcher Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fletcher Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE FLETCHER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

101 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Fletcher Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE FLETCHER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

101 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Fletcher Foundation?

More from the funding graph