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Worcester County Food Bank Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Worcester County Food Bank Inc

To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.

$906k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$301k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MHousing & Shelter$236kCrime & Legal$200kHuman Services$130kPhilanthropy$109k
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $705,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $906,195 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $200,295 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $174k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $301k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT BREAD$301,000
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
WHEAT COMMUNITY CAFE$15,000
SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER COMMUNITY CAFE$15,000
CENTRO PANTRY$15,000
GWHC (PIP SHELTER)$15,000
JEREMIAH'S INN FOOD PANTRY$13,500
YES WE CARE$13,500
SWNC CAMP STREET$12,000
SVDP ST PETER'S FOOD PANTRY$10,500
GINNY'S HELPING HANDS$10,500
DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY$10,500
OXFORD ECUMENICAL FOOD SHELF$7,500
SVDP ST JOSEPH FOOD PANTRY$7,500
MONTACHUSETT VETS OUTREACH CENTER$7,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WEBSTER - DUDLEY FOOD SHARE: $6k → 11%CENTRO GBV PANTRY: $6k → 11%WEBSTER-DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC: $6k → 11%SVDP ST JOSEPH FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 11%CENTRO PANTRY: $15k → 11%YWCA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES GREATER WORCESTER: $6k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN FOOD PANTRY: $14k → 11%WINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN INC: $6k → 11%SOUTHBRIDGE FOOD SHARE: $6k → 11%GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $9k → 11%GARDNER CAC: $6k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $36k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $19k → 11%CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $11k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $6k → 11%GWHC (PIP SHELTER): $15k → 11%SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER COMMUNITY CAFE: $15k → 11%GINNY'S HELPING HANDS: $11k → 11%EL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $8k → 11%SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER: $8k → 11%GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $6k → 11%NORTHBOROUGH HELPING HANDS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%MUSTARD SEED: $8k → 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$676k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.1M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+4%

Still filing today

77%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & NutritionReligionYouth 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

  • MS
    MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    2× · 2021–2022 · $229k · revenue +68%
  • COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +70%
  • FH
    FRIENDLY HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue -19%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue +4%
  • TU
    THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
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
Mustard Seed of Worcester County Inc

Direct service for those in need of housing & meals as well as funding for other similar non-profit organizations.

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2
Parish Cupboard Inc

Providing meals and emergency food services to the needy of West Springfield and Agawam Massachusetts

Religion
3
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
4
Wachusett Food Pantry Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Middlebury Transitional Care Coalition

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Emergency Food Aid in Southbury

Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.

—
7
West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc

To supply the necessary food to needy residents

Food & Nutrition
8
Harvard Square Churches Meal Program Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Society of St Vincent dePaul Cape & Islands District Inc

To coordinate the philanthropic activities of 12 local Society of St Vincent de Paul Conferences in the geographic area known as Cape Cod MA. Each Conference provides help and services in its own parish. The District Council oversees these…

Religion
10
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc

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

Human Services
11
Citizens Inn Inc

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)

Housing & Shelter
12
Falmouth Food Pantry Inc

our goal is to alleviate hunger through providing healthy foods as well as basic hygiene supplies. We respond also to specific food needs caused by medical and religious requirements.

Food & Nutrition
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 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/38
Grantees still filing
17/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $379,193 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $61,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS IN…THE SALVATION ARMY: $51,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $26,000 · Other+18 more: $140,900 · Other+18 morePROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $301,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE…+1 more: $6,000 · Food & NutritionMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $228,750 · Community ImprovementMAIN SOUTH COMMU…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $56,250 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW…+1 more: $7,500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $60,717 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUS…CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO LAS AM…SPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesSPANISH AMERI…JEREMIAH'S INN INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S IN…GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesGINNY'S HELPI…SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH MIDDLES…GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesGARDNER COMMU…WEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesNORTHBOROUGH HELPING HANDS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $39,500 · Human Services+6 moreGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCE…UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $24,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC: $16,000 · PhilanthropyDAILY BREAD F…COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $200,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY L…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF WORCESTER: $16,500 · Religion
Other$658,093Food & Nutrition$307,000Community Improvement$292,500Human Services$241,217Philanthropy$240,000Crime & Legal$200,000Religion$16,500

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 budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $301,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $228,750 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $61,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $60,717 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $56,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $31,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPANISH AMERICAN CENTER INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF WORCESTER: $16,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $16,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC: $14,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetYES WE CARE: $13,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetWEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERNET FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL BUEN SAMARITANO FOOD PROGRAM: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH: $7,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR FATHERS TABLE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

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…Fallon Community Heal…United Way of Central…Spectrum Health Syste…The Fletcher Foundati…United Way of North C…Hometown Bank Communi…Community Foundation …The Health Foundation…Stoddard Charitable T…Webster Five Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…
Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA52.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Worcester County Food Bank Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Worcester County Food Bank Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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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Find your warmest path to Worcester County Food Bank 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 47 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 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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