· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $20,000 |
| UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- MAMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY - WORone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NGNEW GARDEN PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +207%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 WILLIAM J MCKEE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William J McKee Jr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William J McKee Jr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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