· Private foundation
Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER | $25,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE YMCA | $7,000 |
| OVERLOOK FOOD AWARENESS RESOURCE MA | $7,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HEALTH | $7,000 |
| CANAAN FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LAKELAND BIBLE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK INC | $4,000 |
| DANVILLE MUSEUM FINE ARTS & HISTORY | $3,500 |
| WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $3,500 |
| GALA COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,500 |
| KEARSARGE FOOD HUB | $3,500 |
| AMERICARES | $3,100 |
| UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| THE LEARNING PROJECT ELEMENTARY SCH | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CFCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +30%
- SSSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association4× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +30%
- KFKEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC3× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- OFOverlook Food Awareness Resourcesone grant, 2019 · $80k
- PPPARENT PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +52%
- NDNATURAL DHARMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The organization protects massachusetts natural resources by supporting conservation commissions through education and advocacy.
To advance understanding of ecology by exploring new hampshire's natural world.
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Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the most unlike its peers is Holliston Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 90 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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds PARENT PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BOSOM BUDDIES BREAST CANCER SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds GALA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REFUGEE TUTORING ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mascoma Foundation ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Think Wild ↗
- Who funds STREET DOG HERO ↗
- Who funds MASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Sunset Hill Educational Institute 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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation 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.
- Wachusett Greenways Inc — 51% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Parent Professional Advocacy League Inc — 8% of income from government
- Think Wild — 7% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School 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.