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Wyman Gordon

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.0MArts & Culture$208kHuman Services$163kEducation$111kHousing & Shelter$108kEnvironment$92kYouth Development$80kHealth$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$70,000
ECOTARIUM$30,000
WILLARD HOUSE AND CLOCK MUSEUM INC$20,000
INDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER (ISW)$15,000
WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC$15,000
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL (REC)$15,000
VNA CARE NETWORK-ROSE$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO WEST$10,000
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$7,500
WORCESTER RISE FOR HEALTH$5,000
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$2,000
WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC$2,000
MAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$1,000
WORCESTER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY$1,000
SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES: $5k → 7%GUILD OF ST AGNES: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $10k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $25k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $1k → 11%SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $25k → 11%CENTRO INC: $20k → 11%CENTRO INC: $20k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 47 repeat orgs$349k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
23

Total granted

$1.6M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+21%

Still filing today

62%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionYouth 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

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $920k · revenue +46%
  • WP
    WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +136%
  • IS
    INDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER
    2× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +256%

Funded once

  • CL
    CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +21%
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

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Worcester Business Development Corp

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…

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2
Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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3
Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

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…

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4
Worcester County Arts Council Inc

To aid, encourage, advise, and correlate activities dedicated to the promotion of the arts in worcester county, as may be feasible; to integrate such activities into the total life of the community served by the council.

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5
Downtown Worcester Business Improvement

To develop, implement, manage, operate, enhance and promote the general welfare of the people within the designated downtown worcester business improvement district (the district), through activities, programs, and services to include but…

Community Improvement
6
Worcester Area Mission Society United Church of Christ

The organization's vision is to fuel inclusion, voice, and opportunity for all. to support its charitable mission of working with individuals and community partners to inspire economic and educational equity through social change. wam ucc…

Religion
7
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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8
Worcester District Medical Society

Medical education and medical ethics

Health
9
Worcester Regional Tourism and Visitors Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
10
Creative Hub Worcester

The organization's mission is to support our local community through providing accessible arts programs, community outreach, culturally focused events, and offering a safe and welcoming space and platform for other arts and…

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11
Worcester Cultural Coaltioninc

The mission of worcester cultural coalition is to draw on worcester's rich and diverse cultural assets to foster economic revitalization, support active, creative engagement for all and promote a strong cultural identity for greater…

Arts & Culture
12
Worcester County Commission On Aginginc

To enhance the quality of life of all older worcester county citizens by managing community based senior programs that are comprehensive, coordinated, accessible, and to advocate the needs of older citizens.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Willard House & Clock Museum Inc. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 84 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $920,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC+55 more: $506,500 · Other+55 moreWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $52,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER …INDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureINDIA SOCI…WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER …WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $14,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER …JOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureJOY OF MUS…OLD STURBRIDGE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOLD STURBR…ARTSWORCESTER INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,050 · Arts & CultureJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'…CENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO LA…YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CENT…FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY …OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SKY …SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH MID…GUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesGUILD OF …+2 more: $10,000 · Human Services+2 moreWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWORCESTER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $20,200 · Food & NutritionWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC: $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,426,500Arts & Culture$186,050Human Services$176,000Philanthropy$120,000Housing & Shelter$41,000Food & Nutrition$27,200Youth Development$27,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $920,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $52,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetINDIA SOCIETY OF WORCESTER: $40,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO LAS AMERICAS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $36,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMECHANICS HALL CORPORATION: $27,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $20,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER: $17,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARTSWORCESTER INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER EAST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WORCESTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,050 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetWORCESTER REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT (RISE) FOR HEALTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN HEALTH ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICN PUBLIC RADIO INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAK HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

The Fletcher Foundati…Stoddard Charitable T…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Greater Worcester Com…The Fred Harris Danie…The George I Alden Tr…Webster Five Foundati…Schwartz Charitable F…Hoche-Scofield Founda…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…United Way of Central…Coghlin Services Fund
The Fletcher FoundationMA87.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Coghlin Services Fund

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 Wyman Gordon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wyman Gordon. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Centro Las Americas Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester: 60% of income from government
  • Open Sky Community Services Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
  • Spectrum Health Systems Inc: 33% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Preservation Worcester Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Music Worcester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc: 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
  • Artsworcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wicn Public Radio Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Joy of Music Program Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wyman Gordon?

Find your warmest path to Wyman Gordon 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 84 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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