· Private foundation
Gloria Wilcher 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYMPHONY BY THE SEA | $5,000 |
| CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON | $3,688 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN | $3,000 |
| JCC OF THE NORTH SHORE | $2,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $1,129 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,129 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $1,129 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FDN | $1,064 |
| THE RESOLUTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| SALEM FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY | $807 |
| NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL | $500 |
| COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FDN | $500 |
| THE HISTORY PROJECT | $500 |
| WPATH | $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 (FY19–23, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SBSYMPHONY BY THE SEA LTD6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +75%
- TRTHE RESOLUTION CENTER INC FKA NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATIONINC7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +103%
- WCWellesley College4× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $3k
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +5%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +28%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
The mission of the boston athenaeum is to engage all who seek knowledge by making accessible our library's collections and spaces, thereby inspiring reflection, discourse, creative expression, and joy.
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council 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 36 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 43 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 THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY BY THE SEA LTD ↗
- Who funds THE RESOLUTION CENTER INC FKA NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Support Our Aging Religious Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HISTORY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Brookline Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR DBA READY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gloria Wilcher 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.
- The Resolution Center Inc Fka North Shore Community Mediationinc — 56% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 26% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Gloria Wilcher Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Gloria Wilcher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.