How much did WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

youth sportsparkcatholicearlychild carehockeycancer research

2019

children'schild careearlyyouthhomelesscancerresearch

2020

santa

2021

jewish

2022

military

2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $34k
$10k–50k4 grants · $48k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$57k

Total assets

Largest grants

DOWNTOWN WORCESTER BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC$15,000
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS SUPPORT INC$11,568
BE LIKE BRIT$11,396
THE CUP CRUSADERS$10,000
WHY ME INC$6,970
PANCREATIC CANCER ALLIANCE (UMASS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION)$5,250
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM$5,000
WORCESTER HIBERNIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE WORCESTER GUARDIAN$5,000
FRIENDLY HOUSE INC$2,000
THE SHINE INITIATIVE$1,322
YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$1,000
MARY BETH BENISON FOUNDATION$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$1,000
BOSTON BRUINS FOUNDATION$500

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLE’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLElessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$992k · 49 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$992k

$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+8%

Still filing today

51%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

DW
DOWNTOWN WORCESTER BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +172%
JR
JUNIOR RAILERS HOCKEY CLUB INC
3× · 2017–2022 · $56k · revenue +74%
TS
THE SHINE INITIATIVE
8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +61%

Funded once

WT
WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE SANTA FUND
one grant, 2017 · $25k
FO
FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTED POLICE UNIT
one grant, 2022 · $15k · 99% of their budget
WR
WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGICgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27671%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Railers Hc Charitable

Philanthropy

Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

To foster and improve the general economic conditions of the central massachusetts area through promotional and educational efforts.

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Worcester Business Development Corp

To serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the region, resulting in job creation and tax based expansion.

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Worcester Public Library Foundation

To foster and promote the public visibility of the worcester public library, all its facilities and services; to build an endowment by stimulating and encouraging contributions to the library especially through gifts, grants, and bequests;…

Philanthropy

Worcester Center for Performing

The hanover theatre seeks to ignite and nurture a passion for the performing arts in audiences and artists of today and tomorrow. in doing so we will participate fully in the revitalization of downtown worcester by bringing vistiors to the…

Arts & Culture

Worcester Community Cable Access

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Preservation Worcester Inc

To provide an organization devoted exclusively to the prosecution of historic preservation, antiquarian, educational, historical, literary, artisitic and monumental purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of…

Arts & Culture

Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education

Worcester Country Club

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…

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UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)

To support, develop and coordinate an integrated health care delivery system that includes multiple health care facilities and providers. To receive in trust, from whatever source, and administer gifts and grants, whether restricted or for…

Health

Worcester Free Library

Public Library

Education

Greater Worcester Community Foundation

Greater worcester community foundation's mission is to build healthy and vibrant communities in central massachusetts. the foundation works with donors, builds charitable endowments, and provides support to nonprofits in the area.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester State Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bancroft School. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3/59

the rest of the field

10%

423/4,185

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.

06the grantee network

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/56

Grantees still filing

37/56

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$743,974Health$107,522Arts & Culture$83,550Community Improvement$68,000Recreation & Sports$62,224Philanthropy$43,500Education$40,370

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.

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.

Greater Worcester Community FoundationMA44.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation · Coghlin Services Fund · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Woosox Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · Fallon Community Health Plan 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 organisation WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLE 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTED POLICE UNIT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 5.1× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832568110 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTED POLICE UNIT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Worcester Railers Hc Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Worcester Railers Hc Charitable?

More from the funding graph

WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Worcester Railers Hc Charitable?

More from the funding graph