· Public charity
United Way of North Central Mass Inc
The mission of uwncm is to create opportunities for a better life through innovative leadership that improves the human condition by mobilizing the caring power of the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 60 grants below total $3,345,610 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,733,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $387,823 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $878k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $840k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR FATHER'S HOUSE INC | $1,063,870 |
| CITY OF LEOMINSTER | $500,000 |
| MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $193,858 |
| SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC | $82,273 |
| ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $75,370 |
| ST BERNARD'S HIGH SCHOOL INC | $71,750 |
| GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC | $66,849 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC | $63,925 |
| HOUSE OF PEACE & EDUCATION INC | $61,050 |
| SALVATION ARMY MONTACHUSETT CORPS | $60,300 |
| MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $60,000 |
| RALLYSOUND INC | $52,876 |
| HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC | $51,770 |
| YMCA - CENTRAL MASS INC | $47,750 |
| APPLEWILD SCHOOL INC | $44,450 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- ASAPPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +338%
- AYATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND SUBSIDIARY9× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +78%
- SASPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $602k · revenue +347%
Funded once
- GGGARDNER GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +113%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF WORCESTERone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +10%
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +42%
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.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Provide job driven employment and educational services that expand opportunities for young people and adults in north central massachusetts and provide employers with the competitive workforce they need to succeed.
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.
The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growing Places Garden Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gardner Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
115 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. 115 of the 151 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ATHOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909) ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHBURNHAM CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PEACE AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds RALLYSOUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FITCHBURG AND LEOMINSTER - A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE SHINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF OPPORTUNITY IN NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BERNARDIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH FILMS ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGING SERVICES OF NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS 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: Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · DCU for Kids
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 United Way of North Central Mass Inc 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.
- Restoration Recovery Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- Luk Crisis Center Inc — 95% of income from government
- Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
- MASS211 Inc — 79% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester — 60% of income from government
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
- Senior Connections Inc — 52% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- World Farmers Inc — 39% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Community Health Connections Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- House of Peace and Education Inc — 29% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Townsend Ecumenical Outreach Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- New England Farm Workers Council Inc — 23% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- Launchspace Inc — 13% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- New Dawn Arts Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rallysound Inc — 5% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.