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The Progin Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| WORCESTER ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| PROVISION MINISTRY | $35,000 |
| THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $30,000 |
| NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $29,000 |
| STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $25,000 |
| JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC | $20,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF WORCESTER | $18,864 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- WAWORCESTER ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +28%
- JOJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +59%
- TCTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- FBFITCHBURG BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2019 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To inspire and educate students to become socially aware leaders and innovators who positively impact their communities around the world
The williston northampton school inspires students to live with purpose, passion and integrity. the school's philosophy comprises the tenents of respect for self and others, responsibility and trust, and honesty and integrity. the school's…
Meadowbrook knows, loves, and challenges every child. together, as a diverse community with high academic, ethical and social standards, we nurture character, promote confidence, inspire creativity and foster critical thinking skills as we…
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
The mission of winchester community music school is to provide outstanding and diverse musical education and performance, accessible to all, in winchester, neighboring communities, and beyond.
Brookline music school's mission is to awaken and nurture joy of learning, playing, and listening to music and to create a welcoming musical community for all ages, abilities, and interests.
To operate as a noncommercial educational fm broadcast public radio station for purposes of providing a cultural, educational, literary, scientific, artistic and musical outlet for the area community.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Straight Ahead Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 29 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 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds PROVISION MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds PLUGGED IN BAND PROGRAM 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 · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Progin Foundation 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 — 30% of income from government
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Plugged in Band Program Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Joy of Music Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons 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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