· Private foundation
Albert O Wilson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS INC | $24,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC | $15,000 |
| JUST A START INC | $15,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC | $12,000 |
| CITYSPROUTS INC | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| AGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY A CAMBRIDGE CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| INNOVATORS FOR PURPOSE | $9,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $9,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC | $9,000 |
| ENROOT INC | $8,000 |
| ON THE RISE INC | $8,000 |
| WOMENS LUNCH PLACE INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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,…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 46 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Albert O Wilson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert O Wilson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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