Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Worcester, Massachusetts

68
foundations with a Worcester address
$49.6M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
28
say they accept unsolicited
$5,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 68 foundations that gave a Worcester, Massachusetts address on their tax filing — 65 private foundations and 3 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $49.6 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 28 of them (41%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Worcester foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 68 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 3 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Worcester, Massachusetts
The George I Alden Trust$100,000$11.5M$15,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Stoddard Charitable Trust$5.6M$5.6M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hermann Foundation Inc$50,000$4.7M$2,500–$497,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Fletcher Foundation$10,500$3.3M$1,000–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mildred H McEvoy Foundation$10,000$1.8M$5,000–$493,310FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ruth H & Warren A Ellsworth Foundation$10,000$980,500$500–$100,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Francis A & Jacquelyn H Harrington$148,271$593,084One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Memorial Foundation for the Blind Inc$120,000$388,029$57,858–$148,029FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
J Irving & Jane L England Charitable$3,500$275,750$500–$16,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fehsenfeld Riley Foundation UA DTD 1017200$20,000$266,000$5,000–$87,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Wyman Gordon$1,000$224,500$1,000–$70,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Richard Melik Simonian Charitable Trust$5,000$149,100$2,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Albert J Gifford Charitable Trust$10,000$140,000$2,000–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Vernon K Krieble Foundation Inc$5,000$135,019$19–$45,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Coghlin Services Fund$500$111,275$200–$29,750FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bradley C Higgins Foundation$10,000$101,000$1,000–$65,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rockwell Foundation$5,000$75,500$2,500–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Wilensky Foundation$2,770$66,480$2,770–$3,041FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Hart Foundation Co Phillips S Davis$2,500$54,000$500–$13,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fusaro Charitable Foundation$3,500$42,500$500–$78,140FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Arno & Roberta E Wagner Scholarship Fund$26,000$26,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Davis Publications Charitable Trust$500$15,600$100–$3,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bay State Savings Charitable$15,000$15,000—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Reverend Boutin Brothers Trust$806$8,000$350–$2,402FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Vuona Charitable Foundationinc$2,760$6,520$1,000–$4,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.