· Private foundation
The Plourde Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF CENTRAL MA INC | $7,000 |
| THE NATIVITY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ARTS AVL | $3,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER | $2,000 |
| ASSUMPTION COLLEGE 500 SALISBURY ST | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SOUTHBOROUGH COUNCIL OF AGING | $2,000 |
| WORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC | $2,000 |
| ECOTARIUM | $2,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC | $2,000 |
| BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION | $1,500 |
| ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD | $1,500 |
| EAST QUABBIN LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| EAGLE EYE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +80%- REREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +150%
- WNWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +56%
Funded once
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%- YYMCAone grant, 2017 · $3k
- UIUTEC Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +112%
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.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Conservation and preservation of land.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.
Land conservation
Hilltown land trust conserves and stewards land through strong relationships to ensure clean water, wildlife habitat, climate resilience, recreational opportunities, and healthy farmland for the benefit of all.
The organization represents 14 conservation districts. it is committed to build on partnerships with the state and federal government to protect and conserve the commonwealth's natural resources.
To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
To preserve the rural new england character of williamstown, ma and surrounding areas for future generations; enable working landscapes including farms and forests; promote land stewardship.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Santa Fe Raptor Center. 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 38 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) — 0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EAST QUABBIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE EYE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHBOROUGH OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Fidelity Foundation · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees · Wyman Gordon · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston 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 Plourde Family Charitable 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.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- East Quabbin Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Eagle Eye Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% 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.