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· Private foundation

Tr Ua Albert W Rice Char

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$773kYouth Development$541kHousing & Shelter$250kCrime & Legal$235kHealth$183kCivil Rights$160kEducation$120kPhilanthropy$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC$20,000
ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE$15,000
ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICE INC$15,000
SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION$15,000
WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC$15,000
THE CASA PROJECT$15,000
PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC$15,000
AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION$15,000
WORCESTER REFU& IMMIGR SUPPORT$15,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CNTL MASSACHUSETTS$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$15,000
NET OF COMPASSION$15,000
Treehouse Foundation Inc$15,000
YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Treehouse Foundation Inc: $15k → 12%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT: $10k → 7%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $15k → 16%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $20k → 11%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $15k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $8k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $15k → 11%NET OF COMPASSION: $20k → 11%NET OF COMPASSION: $15k → 11%NET OF COMPASSION: $10k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $20k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.
$2.6M · 42 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
11

Total granted

$2.6M
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+165%

Still filing today

62%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +213%
  • CP
    CASA PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +57%
  • AK
    ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • DI
    DISMAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TS
    THE SHINE INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • HL
    HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +77%

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.

1
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
3
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
4
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
5
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
6
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
7
Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc

Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.

Human Services
8
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

9
Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc

Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.

Human Services
10
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
11
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

12
Friends of Children Inc

The organization is a child advocacy agency that provides information, referral services, and training to volunteers as advocates for court involved children.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Abby Kelley Foster 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.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr21%31%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr21%32%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr15%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
11%
1,192/10,922

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.

04the grantee network

35 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
30/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC — $135,000 · OtherPATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INCGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER — $120,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF — $105,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OFBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — $91,200 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC — $55,000 · OtherStraight Ahead Ministries INC — $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC — $60,000 · Other+26 more — $782,500 · Other+26 moreAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITY…SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA — $100,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN C…NET OF COMPASSION CORP — $45,000 · Human ServicesNET OF COMPASSION…ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA CARE AL…ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA COMMUNI…JEREMIAH'S INN INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S INN IN…HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $155,000 · Housing & ShelterHospitality Homes Inc — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterRIA Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $160,000 · Crime & LegalLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCASA PROJECT INC — $160,000 · Civil RightsGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC — $70,000 · HealthPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC — $55,000 · HealthTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 · HealthADVOCATES INC — $10,000 · HealthWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $130,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,563,700Human Services$448,000Housing & Shelter$205,000Crime & Legal$170,000Civil Rights$160,000Health$155,000Youth Development$130,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $160,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC — $160,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $155,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $140,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC — $135,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $130,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER — $120,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA — $100,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC — $75,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC — $60,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORCESTER INC — $50,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetNET OF COMPASSION CORP — $45,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRIA Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC
  • Who funds CASA PROJECT INC
  • Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC
  • Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC
  • Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA
  • Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC
  • Who funds GENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC
  • Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC
  • Who funds PERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC
  • Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORCESTER INC
  • Who funds NET OF COMPASSION CORP
  • Who funds ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc
  • Who funds RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
  • Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC
  • Who funds ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC
  • Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN 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.

Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA65.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity

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 Tr Ua Albert W Rice Char 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 23%
  • Pathways for Change Inc86% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc66% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc64% of income from government
  • Genesis Club House Inc53% of income from government
  • Pernet Family Health Service Inc52% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc52% of income from government
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc27% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc23% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc18% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc6% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc5% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc4% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester2% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc2% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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