· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE WORCESTER GUARDIAN | $5,000 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| WORCESTER HIBERNIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDLY HOUSE INC | $2,000 |
| THE SHINE INITIATIVE | $1,322 |
| MARY BETH BENISON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER | $1,000 |
| BOSTON BRUINS FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 83%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +31%
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
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
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.
A youth soccer organization established to serve soccer players at the youth level in the city of Worcester and its surrounding communities. The organization is committed to promoting soccer skills, sportsmanship, and team play in a safe…
Operate youth baseball and softball leagues for children under the age of 19 in the town of winchester, ma.
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 110 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 BIG GAME BATTLE INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMERALD CLUB INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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