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The Hopkinton Country Club Charitable Foundation Inc
The hopkinton cc charitable foundation seeks to empower youth and families in our local communities by supporting youth development and economic assistance programs serving those with the greatest needs.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The Hopkinton Country Club Charitable Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Foundation For Metrowest Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Hopkinton Country Club Charitable Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $113k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $112,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $67,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST | $15,000 |
| NATIVITY PREP | $10,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC | $10,000 |
| PLUGGED IN BAND | $7,500 |
| DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY | $7,500 |
| POST 22 | $7,500 |
| BETHANY HILL PLACE INC | $7,500 |
| DANIEL'S TABLE INC | $7,500 |
| PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN ACROSS AMERICA INC | $7,500 |
| DIGNITY MATTERS INC | $7,500 |
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL BOSTON | $7,500 |
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, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 -14% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NSNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +134%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +301%
- BHBETHANY HILL PLACE4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTERone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -14%
- JAJOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -34%
- OTOPEN TABLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +58%
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.
To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…
Waltham partnership for youth collaborates with youth, families, and partner organizations to address long-standing systemic inequities while building a community of belonging and opportunity for waltham youth. we envision a world where…
The medway village food pantry is a 100% choice pantry serving over 2,500 children, adults, and seniors in metrowest ma. each week clients may choose from a wide variety of items including fresh produce, eggs, cheese, shelf-stable foods,…
Minds matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
Till is a private, not-for-profit human service agency established to develop and provide programs and services to meet the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness, physical handicaps, emotional problems and…
The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daily Bread Food Pantry Inc. 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 29 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 24 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 Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HILL PLACE ↗
- Who funds Project Just Because Inc ↗
- Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLE CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOPKINTON SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY-BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds JOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLUGGED IN BAND PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds POST 22 TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT FOR DISABLED ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE 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.
Open a dossier: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · The Roessner Family Foundation Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · 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 Hopkinton Country Club Charitable 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.
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Project Just Because 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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