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William J McKee Jr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC | $100,000 |
| WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM INC | $50,000 |
| WILLIAM J MCKEE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATI | $40,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| WORCESTER ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $20,000 |
| WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $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 (FY21–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WHWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $263k · revenue +305%
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $233k · revenue +33%- WAWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHN'S FOOD FOR THE POOR PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $50k
- NGNEW GARDEN PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +45%
- UMUMASS MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 historical museum is a unique organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting worcester's history in all time periods and subject areas.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
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 club is established for the purpose of providing athletic exercises including golf, bowling, swimming, tennis, cross country skiing, and other out-of-door sports, and for the establishment and maintenance of facilities for the…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.
The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…
Wachusett greenways, inc. is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to enhance awarenes of open space and greenways. the organization builds and maintains trails and offers trail events.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Willard House & Clock Museum 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY RAILWAY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J MCKEE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GARDEN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds US Challenge Cup 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: The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Bradley C Higgins Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Wyman Gordon · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees
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 William J McKee Jr Charitable Foundation 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.
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
- New Garden Park Inc — 17% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 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.
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