· Private foundation
Gloria Wilcher Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $1,129 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $1,129 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,129 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FDN | $1,064 |
| THE RESOLUTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| SALEM FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY | $807 |
| THE HISTORY PROJECT | $500 |
| WPATH | $500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL | $500 |
| COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FDN | $500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 43 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 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- 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 HISTORY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gloria Wilcher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gloria Wilcher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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