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The Janet Malser Humanities Trust
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISH | $25,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST FEDERATED | $20,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH HARRINGTON HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| WEBSTER - DUDLEY FOOD SHARE | $12,265 |
| PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $12,265 |
| GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GLADYS KELLY LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| NICOLS COLLEGE | $8,799 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,349 |
| ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,200 |
| DUDLEY CHARLTON REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRIC | $6,135 |
| ALL SAINTS ACADEMY | $5,889 |
| ST ROCH'S CHURCH | $5,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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 +82% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- BTBLACK TAVERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +195% · 48% of their budget
- WDWEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC2× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +91%
- OFOXFORD FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +57% · 96% of their budget
Funded once
- WMWEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -10%
- SRST ROCH CHURCH CEMETARY COMMISSIONone grant, 2020 · $38k
- CCCHESTER C CORBIN PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $35k
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 equitable access to a world of resources, reading, and lifelong learning.
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
To study, educate, collect and preserve historical records and artifacts for the town of Westborough, MA
The mission of the west stockbridge historical society is to preserve the history and culture of west stockbridge, ma through research, programming, community involvment and the restoration of the old town hall.
Friends of webster county conservation is a non-profit organization made up of people who are concerned with preserving our natural areas and providing opportunities for people to interact and learn about our natural environment funds are…
Friends of webster trails advocates for the preservation of the natural character of websters open space. fwt promotes this through sensible management, education, and low-impact access. fwt advises the parks and recreation department and…
Worcester historical museum is a unique organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting worcester's history in all time periods and subject areas.
The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The mission of westerly armory restoration, inc is to restore the historic westerly armory (national register of historic places and a save americas treasures site) for use by its community as a museum and community building.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reconciliation House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 94 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.
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: Fels Family Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Massachusetts Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Janet Malser Humanities 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.
- Webster Lake Association Inc — 20% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nichols College — 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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