· Private foundation
Webster Five Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $219k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC | $10,000 |
| YWCA CENTRAL MA | $10,000 |
| AUBURN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MA | $10,000 |
| SHREWSBURY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $8,000 |
| WORCESTER COMMUNITY HOUSING RESOURCES INC | $8,000 |
| GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASSMETROWEST | $6,500 |
| RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $6,000 |
| TRI VALLEY INC | $6,000 |
| JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC | $5,000 |
| THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 24 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- WCWORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +97%
- SYSHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +193%
- TITRI-VALLEY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TCTotal Contributions Paidone grant, 2024 · $262k
- WCWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +89%
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +64%
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.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
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…
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…
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
Provision of quality education and child care programs and services.
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…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Worcester regional research bureau, inc. serves the public interest of greater worcester by conducting independent, non-partisan research and analysis of public policy issues to promote informed public debate and decision-making.
Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
128 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. 128 of the 195 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 FRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE HUB WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation 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 Webster Five Foundation 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.
- Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Venture Community Services Inc — 78% of income from government
- Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Tri-Valley Inc — 68% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc — 52% of income from government
- Senior Connections Inc — 52% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service 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
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Audio Journal Incorporated — 35% of income from government
- Spectrum Health Systems Inc — 33% of income from government
- Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Edward Street Child Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Shrewsbury Youth & Family Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Symphony Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Orchestras Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Care Central Vna & Hospice Inc — 8% 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
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rcap Solutions Inc Formerly Rural Housing Improvement Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 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
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Crocodile River Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
- Creative Hub Worcester — 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.
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