How much did THE PROGIN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE PROGIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

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

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$25,000
JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC$25,000
STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC$20,000
GIRLS INC OF WORCESTER$18,864
GEMELY LUZON$7,500
DOUGLAS MATA SANCHEZ$5,000
MATEO QUINTERO$5,000
JACKYMORA ISA$5,000
ZACHARY SCOTT$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 19 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against -50% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

-50%

Still filing today

53%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthReligionOther

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

WA
WORCESTER ACADEMY
8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +18%
JO
JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +57%
TC
THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND
6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +64%

Funded once

FB
FITCHBURG BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
one grant, 2019 · $30k
RB
RON BUTON TRAINING VILLAGE
one grant, 2021 · $25k
DK
DCF KIDS FUND
one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Community Music Center of Boston

Community music center of boston ("cmcb") transforms lives throughout greater boston by providing equitable access to excellent music education and arts experiences.

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Media Fund Inc

Supports the development and production of independent news.

Arts & Culture

The Bridge of Central Massachusetts

In full partnership with individuals and families facing challenges, the bridge of central massachusetts, incorporated, supports and inspires them to achieve their goals and dreams.

Human Services

Massachusetts Advocates for Children

Massachusetts advocates for children, inc. ("mac") is a non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth. we do so by advocating for and partnering with students and…

Civil Rights

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Engaging local business leaders in governmental and philanthropic activities, connecting and educating its members, and providing a forum for addressing the needs of the cambridge, massachusetts business community.

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Greater Worcester Land Trust

Land conservation

Environment

New Hampshire Children's Trust Inc

We lead the drive to ensure safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and environments for children by educating, advocating, and collaborating.

Health

Grow Associates Inc

Illuminating pathways to independence for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Employment

North Central Mass Chamber of Commerce

To advance the economic development of north central massachusetts by creating and sustaining relationships among businesses and between businesses and the community.

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Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in boston's urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement

Meadowbrook School of Weston

A co-educational independent day school for students in grades junior kindergarten through eight, meadowbrook inspires children to live with purpose, learn with passion and lead by practice.

Education

Community Boating Inc

To make sailing and water sports accessible to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds.

Recreation & Sports

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.

04the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

10/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$889,714Education$260,000Arts & Culture$186,000Human Services$175,000Health$170,000Religion$165,000Philanthropy$165,000Environment$99,400

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.

Greater Worcester Community FoundationMA18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation 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.

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1get no government money at all

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +79% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237055674 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Progin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Progin Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE PROGIN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Progin Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE PROGIN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Progin Foundation?

More from the funding graph