· Private foundation
The George I Alden 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k33 grants · $505k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+12 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC | $1,000,000 |
| ECOTARIUM | $750,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HIGH SCHOOL | $750,000 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $600,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL | $500,000 |
| ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| ANNA MARIA COLLEGE | $475,000 |
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $300,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $300,000 |
| SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY YMCA | $250,000 |
| GREATER HOLYOKE YMCA | $200,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC | $200,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $200,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 31 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M 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 INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +33%
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +30%- WNWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC2× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +102%
Funded once
- WPWorcester Polytechnic Instituteone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- FHFamily Health Center of Worcesterone grant, 2020 · $650k
- YOYWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2021 · $600k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut College and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Comprehensive Education & Care. 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 76 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
188 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. 188 of the 334 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
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
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 TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds WAGNER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Wyman Gordon · Coghlin Services Fund · Berkshire Bank 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 George I Alden 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.
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
- Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% 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
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- Wachusett Greenways Inc — 51% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc — 47% of income from government
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc — 45% of income from government
- Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- New Garden Park Inc — 17% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Orchestras 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 Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Caldwell University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester County Mechanics Association Dba Mechanics Hall — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Western New England University — 1% of income from government
- Wicn Public Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Architectural College — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Creative Hub Worcester — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Dean College — 0% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 0% 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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