· Private foundation
The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k31 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $443k
- $250k+1 grant · $354k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Info Available in Taxpayer office Contributions less than 10000 | $353,791 |
| United Way of Central MA | $170,700 |
| Boys & Girls Club Of Worcester | $129,000 |
| Scholarship America | $77,893 |
| Regional Environment Council | $65,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan | $33,000 |
| Rise Above Foundation | $30,000 |
| YMCA of Central MA | $27,500 |
| Worcester RISE for Health | $25,000 |
| Worcester State Foundation | $25,000 |
| Nativity School Of Worcester | $25,000 |
| Community Legal Aid | $25,000 |
| City of Worcester DYO | $25,000 |
| Worcester Community Action Council | $25,000 |
| Advocates Inc | $24,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +14%
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $181k · revenue +96%- WCWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC3× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CLContributions Less Than 10000one grant, 2022 · $451k
- CLContribution Less Than 10000one grant, 2021 · $425k
- BLBottom Line & Other Small Contributionsone grant, 2020 · $226k
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.
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.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
The mission of dress for success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
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…
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
How this is measured
96 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. 96 of the 150 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER RETIREMENT MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT PLAN EMPLOYEE AFTER-TAX ↗
- Who funds LACASA ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds YES WE CARE ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds WESTRAN INSURANCE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Coghlin Services Fund · Reliant Foundation Inc · DCU for Kids
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Transformation Center Inc: 99% of income from government
- Advocates Inc: 66% of income from government
- Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester: 60% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc: 53% 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
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
- Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc: 27% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc: 12% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc: 10% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc: 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc: 8% 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
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland 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
- Massachusetts Audubon Society 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
- Crocodile River Music Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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