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Woosox Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k75 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH | $46,288 |
| YMCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $6,200 |
| MAKE AN IMPACT FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION | $3,800 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC | $2,500 |
| FONTAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $2,250 |
| ROBERTO CLEMENTE FOUNDATION CORP | $2,100 |
| LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS ORGANIZATION (LABO) | $2,000 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $2,000 |
| PEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION | $1,980 |
| CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC | $1,350 |
| VETERANS INC | $1,250 |
| HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC | $1,250 |
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 (FY21–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
46 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +44%- WMWHY ME INC2× · 2022–2023 · $21k · revenue +7%
- PMPEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- UMUMASS MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $86k
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- WLWORCESTER LATINO DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARSone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
To promote the overall healthy development of children within the north central massachusetts region and worcester county by workingin collaboration with school systems, childcare providers, government agencies and other organizations.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
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…
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
To provide services for disadvantaged youth
The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
The purposes of the corporation shall be to promote, stimulate, develop, and advance the business prosperity and economic welfare of the western massachusetts region and the citizens thereof, to encourage and assist, through loans,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 152 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.
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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 · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · The George I Alden Trust
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 Woosox 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.
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Aids Project Worcester Inc — 63% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Senior Connections Inc — 52% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Our Deaf Survivors Center — 43% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Audio Journal Incorporated — 35% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Ricks Place Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Brookfield Institute Inc dba HomeFront Strong — 16% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% 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
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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