· Private foundation
Albert O Wilson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS INC | $24,000 |
| JUST A START INC | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC | $15,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC | $12,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| CITYSPROUTS INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| AGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY A CAMBRIDGE CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $9,000 |
| INNOVATORS FOR PURPOSE | $9,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC | $9,000 |
| ON THE RISE INC | $8,000 |
| ENROOT INC | $8,000 |
| PHILLIPS BROOK HOUSE ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- UCUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +28%
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +27%- CACOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- CACAMBRIDGE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue 0%
- RREVELSINCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
- MFMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
Community music center of boston ("cmcb") transforms lives throughout greater boston by providing equitable access to excellent music education and arts experiences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambridge Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 46 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 USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSPROUTS INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds AGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY A CAMBRIDGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Innovators for Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VNA Care Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds ENROOT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BAROQUE INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds REVELSINC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust
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 Albert O Wilson 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.
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cambridge School Volunteers Inc — 14% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Supportive Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Vna Care Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Revelsinc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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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