· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 State Foundation | $25,000 |
| Nativity School Of Worcester | $25,000 |
| Worcester RISE for Health | $25,000 |
| Community Legal Aid | $25,000 |
| City of Worcester DYO | $25,000 |
| Worcester Community Action Council | $25,000 |
| Advocates Inc | $24,700 |
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 (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 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 +16% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you 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
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
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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is 2GETHER We Eat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
96 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. 96 of the 150 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 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 ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc 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.
- 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
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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