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Webster Five Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Webster Five Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$284k
Granted FY2025still arriving
81
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$301kEducation$219kYouth Development$218kHousing & Shelter$135kHealth$135kArts & Culture$113kCrime & Legal$81kEnvironment$73kOther$0
02FY2025 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k75 grants · $219k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
YWCA CENTRAL MA$10,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL MA$10,000
AUBURN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC$10,000
FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTER$10,000
WORCESTER COMMUNITY HOUSING RESOURCES INC$8,000
SHREWSBURY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$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
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER: $2k → 7%NEW HOPE INC: $2k → 11%KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER: $2k → 7%NEW HOPE INC: $2k → 11%KENNEDY DONOVAN CENTER: $2k → 7%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC (HMEA): $2k → 7%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC: $2k → 7%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES: $1k → 7%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC: $1k → 7%AUDIO JOURNAL INC: $2k → 11%AUDIO JOURNAL INC: $2k → 11%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%AUDIO JOURNAL: $1k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $2k → 8%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $2k → 8%JEREMIAH'S INN: $5k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $5k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $4k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $4k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $4k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $4k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $3k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $5k → 11%NEADS INC: $2k → 11%NEADS INC: $2k → 11%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $1k → 11%VENTURE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%NET OF COMPASSION: $2k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER INC (LIFT): $5k → 11%BUILDING FUTURES INC: $2k → 11%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2k → 11%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $1k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $13k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $8k → 11%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $8k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER INC: $4k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER INC: $4k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $2k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $3k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $3k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $3k → 11%NEW HOPE INC: $2k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $2k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 107 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
63

Total granted

$1.3M
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+39%

Still filing today

80%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WC
    WORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +97%
  • SY
    SHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +193%
  • TI
    TRI-VALLEY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • TC
    Total Contributions Paid
    one grant, 2024 · $262k
  • WC
    WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +89%
  • WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +64%
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.

1
Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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2
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
3
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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4
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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5
Center for Living & Working Inc

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

Human Services
6
Wellesley Community Childrens Center Inc

Provision of quality education and child care programs and services.

Human Services
7
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
8
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.

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9
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

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

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Worcester Regional Research Bureau Inc

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.

Public Benefit
12
Women's Money Matters Inc

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…

Human Services
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

128 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/128
Grantees still filing
91/128
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Total Contributions Paid: $262,362 · OtherTotal Contributions PaidWORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC: $49,500 · OtherYWCA CENTRAL MA: $48,332 · OtherSHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 · Other+129 more: $756,150 · Other+129 moreFRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $105,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF …NICHOLS COLLEGE: $23,000 · EducationNICHOLS COL…Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationQuinsigamon…SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $9,500 · EducationABBY KELLEY FOSTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Education+5 more: $22,000 · Education+5 moreJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'…OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SKY …YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $16,668 · Human ServicesYWCA CENT…WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesWORCESTER…SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesSAFE EXIT…SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST…MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE INC: $6,000 · Human Services+16 more: $45,800 · Human Services+16 moreTRI-VALLEY INC: $40,000 · HealthGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $22,500 · HealthDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $10,000 · HealthADVOCATES INC: $9,000 · HealthTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION: $5,035 · HealthJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthHarrington Healthcare System Inc: $5,000 · HealthCare Central VNA & Hospice Inc: $5,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $4,500 · HealthVNA Care Network Inc: $4,000 · Health+5 more: $8,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $39,000 · Crime & LegalDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $33,500 · Crime & LegalMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $33,804 · EnvironmentREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $14,000 · EnvironmentWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · EnvironmentEDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC: $7,334 · Youth Development+3 more: $5,200 · Youth Development
Other$1,161,344Education$187,000Human Services$156,468Health$118,035Crime & Legal$72,500Environment$66,304Youth Development$66,034

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE GLADYS E KELLY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $105,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetWORCESTER COMM HOUSING RESOURCE INC: $49,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSHREWSBURY YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTRI-VALLEY INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAUBURN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $34,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $33,804 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $33,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNICHOLS COLLEGE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS CLUB HOUSE INC: $22,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $20,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $16,668 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $13,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE HUB WORCESTER: $13,334 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORCESTER AREA MISSION SOCIETY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $10,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAKACHOAG MUSIC SCHOOL OF GREATER WORCESTER: $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetApple Tree Arts Inc: $8,900 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METROWEST- GREATER WORCESTER INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • 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 WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE EXIT INITIATIVE (SEI) INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER AREA MISSION SOCIETY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST ↗

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…The Fred Harris Danie…United Way of Central…The Fletcher Foundati…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Stoddard Charitable T…Schwartz Charitable F…The George I Alden Tr…Rockland Trust Charit…Hometown Bank Communi…The Hanover Insurance…Reliant Foundation Inc
Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA172× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Webster Five Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Webster Five Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 390%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
39get no government money at all
20report 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.
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How do I get to Webster Five Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Webster Five Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 195 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-PF 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