· Public charity
Worcester County Food Bank Inc
To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $705,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $906,195 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $200,295 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $174k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT BREAD | $301,000 |
| GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CENTRO PANTRY | $15,000 |
| WHEAT COMMUNITY CAFE | $15,000 |
| GWHC (PIP SHELTER) | $15,000 |
| SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER COMMUNITY CAFE | $15,000 |
| JEREMIAH'S INN FOOD PANTRY | $13,500 |
| YES WE CARE | $13,500 |
| SWNC CAMP STREET | $12,000 |
| DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY | $10,500 |
| SVDP ST PETER'S FOOD PANTRY | $10,500 |
| GINNY'S HELPING HANDS | $10,500 |
| SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER | $7,500 |
| OXFORD ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF | $7,500 |
| EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $241k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 23 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k 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
- MSMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP2× · 2021–2022 · $229k · revenue +68%
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +70%- FHFRIENDLY HOUSE INC3× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +81%
Funded once
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCone grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue -19%
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCone grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue +4%- TUTHE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
Providing meals and emergency food services to the needy of West Springfield and Agawam Massachusetts
Direct service for those in need of housing & meals as well as funding for other similar non-profit organizations.
To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity
To provide emergency food assistance to any resident of Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, and Sterling in a caring and confidential manner as part of the Worcester County Hunger-Free Network.
Provide emergency shelter for individuals who have become homeless, and a community meal program 7 days per week and social services case management and referrals as requested.
To supply the necessary food to needy residents
Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.
The Harvard Square Churches Meal Program prepares and serves a weekly evening meal every Thursday for 100+ underserved and un housed people in the Cambridge / Greater Boston area.
To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sand Lake Baptist Church. 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 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 47 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 PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds YES WE CARE ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds South Worc Neighborhood Imp Corp ↗
- Who funds NORTHBOROUGH HELPING HANDS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds The Farm School Inc ↗
- Who funds AMPLEHARVESTORG INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Spectrum Health Systems Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable 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 Worcester County Food Bank 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
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation 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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