How much does The Plourde Family Charitable Trust give?

The Plourde Family Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Plourde Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (10%).

Who are The Plourde Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Umass Chan Medical School Foundation Inc ($25k), Worcester Art Museum ($23k), Regional Environmental Council Inc ($21k).

Does The Plourde Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Plourde Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Plourde Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation, The Fletcher Foundation.

Where is The Plourde Family Charitable Trust based?

The Plourde Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.

The Plourde Family Charitable Trust

The Plourde Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Plourde Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$109kEducation$70kArts & Culture$36kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$27kReligion$24kAnimals$18kInternational$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$872k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ASSUMPTION COLLEGE 500 SALISBURY ST	$2,000
WORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC	$2,000
ECOTARIUM	$2,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC	$2,000
SANTA FE RAPTOR CENTER	$2,000
FRIENDS OF SOUTHBOROUGH COUNCIL OF AGING	$2,000
BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION	$1,500
ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD	$1,500
WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK	$1,000
EAST QUABBIN LAND TRUST	$1,000
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$340k · 24 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$340k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%

+112%

Still filing today

71%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalHousing & ShelterReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 MUSEUM
9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +80%
RE
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +150%
WN
WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +56%

Funded once

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
Y
YMCA
one grant, 2017 · $3k
UI
UTEC Incgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +112%

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.

04Its field

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.

Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment

Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment

Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.

Environment

Brewster Conservation Trust

Land conservation

Environment

Hilltown Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment

Massachusetts Association of Conservatio

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.

Environment

Bourne Conservation Trust

To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment

Environment

Franklin Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment

Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation

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.

Environment

The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment

Upper Saco Valley Land Trust

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…

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Land Trust; 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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 32 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

20/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$151,500Environment$82,000Arts & Culture$54,000Philanthropy$25,000Animals$18,000International$16,500Housing & Shelter$16,000

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.

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.

Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Plourde Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Plourde Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home