Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,654,824 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,675,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year. GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$52M
Recipients
403
Contributions on record
$16M
Donors on record
60
Payments out run 3.2x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Nathaniel Wheeler Tua-Worclocalportfolio match
- Reliant Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- The Fred Harris Daniels Foundationshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 8% · 2023 14% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $397k → $1.4M.
6 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.6M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
70% of GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $770k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 55 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Nathaniel Wheeler Tua-Worclocalportfolio matchTX · funds 26 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Reliant Foundation Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- The Fred Harris Daniels Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 85 organizations that share your funders · funds 91 organizations near you
- Tr Ua Albert W Rice Charshared fundersTX · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equityshared funderslocalTX · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 organizations near you
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersMA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- The Health Foundation of Central Massachshared funderslocalMA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared fundersMA · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fundshared fundersMA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- The George I Alden Trustshared fundersMA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Amelia Peabody Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Linde Family Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$4.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
- GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,654,824 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,675,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year. GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $10,654,824 in grants to GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 55funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing