· Private foundation
Worcester Railers Hc Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of WORCESTER RAILERS HC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN WORCESTER BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS SUPPORT INC | $11,568 |
| BE LIKE BRIT | $11,396 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $1,000 |
| MARY BETH BENISON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $1,000 |
| BOSTON BRUINS FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc’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 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- DWDOWNTOWN WORCESTER BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT4× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +46%
- JRJUNIOR RAILERS HOCKEY CLUB INC3× · 2017–2022 · $56k · revenue +83%
- TSTHE SHINE INITIATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- WTWORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE SANTA FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MOUNTED POLICE UNIT INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · 99% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 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 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…
To promote, develop and expand tourism in the central massachusetts and southern worcester county region and to provide services for such promotion, development and expansion.
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…
Worcester regional research bureau, inc. serves the public interest of greater worcester by conducting independent, non-partisan research and analysis of public policy issues to promote informed public debate and decision-making.
Medical education and medical ethics
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
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…
The foundation's mission is to enhance the public visibility and to raise public and private funds to ensure the continuing vitality of the worcester public library.
To provide objective and impartial research and policy analysis in order to promote more efficient, effective and responsible government for the city of boston.
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 Thin Blue Ride. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 110 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 DOWNTOWN WORCESTER BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR RAILERS HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BECKER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HIBERNIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHY ME INC ↗
- Who funds BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTED POLICE UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL DISTRICT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORCESTER GUARDIAN INC ↗
- Who funds OFFICER RONALD TARENTINO JR CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
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 · Coghlin Services Fund · Woosox Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation
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 Railers Hc Charitable 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.
- The Bridge of Central Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
- Parent Professional Advocacy League Inc — 8% of income from government
- Building Futures Inc — 7% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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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