· Private foundation
George R Wallace Foundation
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 $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHSTAR FAMILY SERVICES INC | $60,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| St Bernard's Elementary School | $25,000 |
| APPLE WILD SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FITCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| Easterseals of Massachusetts | $15,000 |
| Mount Wachusett Community College | $15,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND | $10,000 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $479k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +90% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 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; $60k 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
NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +90%- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +190%
- FHFITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +76% · 94% of their budget
Funded once
- YOYWCA OF CNTRAL MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2023 · $55k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- LSLUNENBURG SKATE PARK INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -64% · 35% of their budget
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.
Low income elderly housing.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
To establish and maintain housing for low and moderate income families in the Worcester area. Worcester Common Ground also provides income eligible individuals the opportunity to be homeowners.
Worcester Community Housing Resources' mission is to help create and preserve affordable housing and to initiate and support neighborhood revitalization in the greater Worcester area. Since 1994 we have proven ourselves to be a successful…
Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
To collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community
To collect and preserve the historical record and material culture of boston's north end. also to catalog and present these resources through publications, lectures, educational programs and exhibits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Neighbors of Fitchburg Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clinton 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.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 64 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 NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEIGHBORS OF FITCHBURG INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG SKATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds BERNARDIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEOMINSTER ART ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Nypro Foundation Inc co Nypro Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Reliant Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community 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 R Wallace 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.
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 100% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 100% of income from government
- Community Health Connections Inc — 50% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 39% of income from government
- Spanish American Center Inc — 37% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 33% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 32% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 29% of income from government
- Fitchburg Historical Society — 24% of income from government
- Ginny's Helping Hand Inc — 23% of income from government
- New Players Theatre Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music 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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