· Private foundation
The Spillane Charitable Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERS IN CHARITY | $5,000 |
| PROBLEM PREGNANCY OF WORCESTER | $5,000 |
| DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ANNA MARIA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE FUND FOR SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DEXTER SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SAINT JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S CHURCH FOOD FOR THE POOR PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| CHRIST THE KING PARISH | $2,500 |
| THE HOLY CROSS FUND | $2,500 |
| SAINT PAUL DIOCESAN JRSR HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| HYANNIS YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DIOCESE OF WORCESTER | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TSTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +5%
- AUASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +9%
- PPPROBLEM PREGNANCY OF WORCESTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UMUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH-QUINLAN BREAST CANCER ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2024 · $5k
- VHVISITATION HOUSE INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
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…
Worcester academy exists to instill in its students the desire to learn throughout life, to engage passionately with the world around them, and to be honorable persons of strong and resourceful character.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Cushing academy, founded as a coeducational boarding school in 1865, exists for students, their academic growth and their personal development. we are dedicated to educating the mind, shaping the character, and nurturing the creativity of…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dexter Southfield Inc and the most unlike its peers is Visitation 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.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROBLEM PREGNANCY OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY NAZARETH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HYANNIS YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC ↗
- Who funds VISITATION HOUSE 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: David R Grenon Family Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Lauring Charitable Foundation · Coghlin Family Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Anthony-Arthur Foundation Inc · Carroll Charitable Foundation · The Camosse Family Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Fallon Community Health Plan 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 Spillane Charitable 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.
- Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- Assumption University — 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.