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United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc

United way of central ma connects people and resources to improve the community.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
179
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$294k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$13MYouth Development$7.2MPhilanthropy$5.8MFood & Nutrition$4.2MHealth$2.3MEducation$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 179 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $259k
  • $10k–50k113 grants · $2.6M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $294k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$294,490
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$242,209
WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL$220,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$205,304
YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC$115,500
GIRL'S INC OF WORCESTER$106,222
CENTRAL MASS HOUSING ALLIANCE$100,000
WORCESTER COMMUNITY HOUSING RESOURCES INC$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MA$95,281
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC$84,500
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC$82,014
MERYL'S SAFE HAVEN$80,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MA$73,841
NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER$70,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$69,921
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $13.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $90k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY: $89k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $75k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $70k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $70k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $65k → 8%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $405k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $275k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $221k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $220k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $155k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $155k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $140k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $125k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $116k → 11%TECHNOCOPIA: $100k → 11%OUR STORY EDUTAINMENT: $90k → 11%TECHNOCOPIA: $86k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASS: $80k → 11%CENTRO LAS AMERICAS: $70k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $68k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $66k → 11%SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $182k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $96k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $77k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $75k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $70k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $69k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $68k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $68k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $67k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $65k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $65k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $65k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $65k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $65k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $65k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $339k → 11%YMCA CENTRAL MASS: $303k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $142k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $112k → 11%THE VILLAGE AFROCENTRIC CULTURAL CENTER INC: $100k → 11%GUILD OF ST AGNES: $248k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL MA: $142k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $118k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL MASS: $75k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $65k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 114 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

114 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
37

Total granted

$33M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+14%

Still filing today

85%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +67%
  • YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +16%
  • WC
    WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • LA
    LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2024 · $3.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • TV
    THE VILLAGE AFROCENTRIC CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
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.

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Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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2
United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc

United way of central ma connects people and resources to improve the community.

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3
Worcester County Child Advocacy Center

The organization is a child-friendly, safe and neutral location in which local law enforcement and child protective services can conduct and observe forensic interviews with children who are alleged victims of crime.

Youth Development
4
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
5
Worcester Common Ground Inc

To establish and maintain housing for low and moderate income families in the Worcester area. Worcester Common Ground also provides income eligible individuals the opportunity to be homeowners.

Housing & Shelter
6
Empower Children for Success

To promote the overall healthy development of children within the north central massachusetts region and worcester county by workingin collaboration with school systems, childcare providers, government agencies and other organizations.

Human Services
7
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
8
Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

The organization is dedicated to being the leading business organization in central massachusetts by providing valuable membership services and programs and events to its members and in advancing and advocating on behalf of economic…

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9
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
10
Aids Project Worcester Inc

Aids project worcester is a nonprofit organization in central massachusetts dedicated to ending the hiv/aids pandemic and fostering wellness through service, advocacy, prevention, education, and collaborative initiatives. we empower and…

Health
11
Wcuw Inc

Broadcasting, leasing, maintaining and operating noncommercial radio broadcasting facilities to inform, educate and entertain the general public

Arts & Culture
12
Worcester Business Development Corp

The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is 2GETHER We Eat. 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

139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 174 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
132/139
Grantees still filing
93/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $3,356,964 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INCLIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST: $3,285,997 · OtherLIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER: $1,408,494 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTERYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC: $770,583 · OtherLATINO EDUCATION INSTITUTE AT WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $757,764 · OtherCENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $680,489 · Other+89 more: $8,298,570 · Other+89 moreYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,351,955 · Human ServicesYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $1,949,209 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL I…FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $1,590,701 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INCYMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909): $1,511,611 · Human ServicesYMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909)AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $689,615 · Human ServicesGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $686,297 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ORGANIZATION OF WORCESTER INC: $642,583 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $555,414 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $548,763 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC: $485,436 · Human Services+22 more: $2,076,402 · Human Services+22 moreUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $1,804,951 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,466,367 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCE…UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $824,240 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $228,586 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $161,901 · Philanthropy+7 more: $312,760 · Philanthropy+7 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $521,773 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $409,796 · Youth DevelopmentYES WE CARE: $191,099 · Youth Development2GETHER WE EAT: $160,999 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN WORCESTER COUNTY INC: $66,583 · Youth Development+2 more: $33,733 · Youth DevelopmentPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $495,429 · HealthELDER SERVICES OF WORCESTER AREA INC: $427,708 · HealthDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $125,000 · HealthUMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent): $50,000 · Health+4 more: $59,311 · HealthREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $866,249 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $190,388 · Environment+2 more: $35,000 · EnvironmentCROCODILE RIVER MUSIC INC: $167,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $152,277 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $124,920 · Arts & CultureANGELS NET FOUNDATION INC: $102,000 · Arts & CultureRENDER CREATIVE INC: $75,507 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $72,730 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $68,000 · Arts & CultureJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $62,762 · Arts & CultureCHARLES HOUSTON CULTURAL PROJECT INC: $42,600 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $109,328 · Arts & Culture
Other$18,558,861Human Services$13,087,986Philanthropy$4,798,805Youth Development$1,383,983Health$1,157,448Environment$1,091,637Arts & Culture$977,124

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $3,356,964 over 7y, 18% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,351,955 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $1,949,209 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC: $1,804,951 over 6y, 16% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $1,590,701 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetYMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909): $1,511,611 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,466,367 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER: $1,408,494 over 7y, 12% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $866,249 over 7y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $824,240 over 7y, 23% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC: $770,583 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $689,615 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $686,297 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $680,489 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ORGANIZATION OF WORCESTER INC: $642,583 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $587,854 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $564,202 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $555,414 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $548,763 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $521,773 over 7y, 11% of budgetPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $495,429 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC: $485,436 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $478,516 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $451,898 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF WORCESTER AREA INC: $427,708 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $409,796 over 7y, 12% of budgetWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $387,694 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC: $368,767 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $278,549 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $278,098 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetANSAAR OF WORCESTER INC: $270,100 over 4y, 27% of budgetSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION: $261,915 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWEBSTER SQUARE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $243,477 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $209,737 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE HUB WORCESTER: $202,485 over 5y, 20% of budgetYES WE CARE: $191,099 over 5y, 21% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $190,388 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNOCOPIA CO: $186,045 over 2y, 33% of budgetINNOVATION LEARNING CENTER INC: $180,072 over 4y, 56% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES INC: $177,859 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCROCODILE RIVER MUSIC INC: $167,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetNET OF COMPASSION CORP: $163,713 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $162,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $161,901 over 6y, 0.7% of budget2GETHER WE EAT: $160,999 over 5y, 89% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $152,277 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBUILDING FUTURES INC: $150,932 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetMERYLS SAFE HAVEN INC: $130,446 over 2y, 5.6% of budget
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.

  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909) ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ORGANIZATION OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds PERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
  • Who funds ELDER SERVICES OF WORCESTER AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANSAAR OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEBSTER SQUARE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗

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 Com…Webster Five Foundati…The Fred Harris Danie…The Fletcher Foundati…The George I Alden Tr…Reliant Foundation IncRuth H & Warren a Ell…Stoddard Charitable T…Fallon Community Heal…Schwartz Charitable F…Rockland Trust Charit…The Health Foundation…
Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA177.8× affinity90 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 · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Reliant Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach

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 United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Luk Crisis Center Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc: 93% of income from government
  • Centro Las Americas Inc: 91% of income from government
  • MASS211 Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc: 64% of income from government
  • The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester: 60% of income from government
  • Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Legendary Legacies Inc: 58% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater Plymouth County in: 56% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Pernet Family Health Service Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Lutheran Home of Jamaica Plain Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Open Sky Community Services Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Charles Houston Cultural Project Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Generation Teach Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
  • Pakachoag Acres Day Care Centerinc: 37% of income from government
  • Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Worcester Cultural Coaltioninc: 21% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Edward Street Child Services Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Roots Project: 12% of income from government
  • Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Community Action Council Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
  • Building Futures Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region: 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Joy of Music Program Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Village Afrocentric Cultural Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Crocodile River Music Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Creative Hub Worcester: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
14rely 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 174 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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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