· Private foundation
George C Wadleigh 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $482k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $613k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARAH'S PLACE ADULT HEALTH CENTER INC | $81,229 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $75,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS | $75,000 |
| YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE | $75,000 |
| COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC | $72,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| WAYSTONE HEALTH | $65,000 |
| EMMAUS INC | $50,000 |
| OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE | $50,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER | $40,000 |
| L'ARCHE BOSTON NORTH INC | $36,000 |
| PENACOOK PLACE | $35,000 |
| AGE SPAN | $35,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY WORKS INC | $30,000 |
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, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +51% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k 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
Community Action Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +60%
EMMAUS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $465k · revenue +48%- PPPenacook Place Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- CRCareer Resources Corpone grant, 2017 · $44k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2024 · $15k
- AOANCHOR OF HOPEone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
We are committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate home care to the patients entrusted to us. We are also steadfast in our pledge to be a responsive and innovative advocate for the communities we serve, focusing on health…
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
To promote responsible and sustainable home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income earners by producing comprehensive training and counseling, as well as promoting the use of special mortgage products and down payment…
Provide low income elderly housing.
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
Lifepath, inc. is a private non-profit organization, designated aging services access point and an area agency on aging. its mission is to help elders live at home safely and independently for as long as possible by providing assistance…
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
Tarry House operates group homes to provide shelter, food and,services to adults with severe mental disorders
Resident Service Coordinators are professionals who serve elders, youth and families in their housing communities. NERSC provides training & professional development, including on-line courses for Resident Service Coordinators and housing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bread & Roses Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Katydid Foundation Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 Community Action Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Northeast Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Penacook Place Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOME HEALTH VNA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Essex Elder Transport Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds AGESPAN INC ↗
- Who funds SOMEBODY CARES NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S PLACE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Works Inc ↗
- Who funds L'Arche Boston North Inc ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER HAVERHILL INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KATYDID FOUNDATION 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: Griffin White Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Pentucket Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Swasey Fund Inc · George P Bishop Foundation Inc
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 George C Wadleigh 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.
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- L'Arche Boston North Inc — 82% of income from government
- Opportunity Works Inc — 77% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- Penacook Place Inc — 47% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Nourishing the North Shore Inc — 20% of income from government
- Northern Essex Elder Transport Inc — 16% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Somebody Cares New England Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc — 3% 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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