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Kane Wallace Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$3.6MArts & Culture$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.7MEducation$889kHousing & Shelter$217kHuman Services$87kReligion$82kCivil Rights$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $515k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB$1,100,000
MORRIS ARBORETUM$525,000
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500,000
NORTHERN FOREST CENTER$205,000
NATIVE PLANT TRUST$110,418
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PA$75,000
CONCORD MUSEUM$75,000
IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES$50,000
FUNDERBURG SCHOLARS INC$35,000
WINTERTHUR MUSEUM$25,000
SEACOAST EAT LOCAL$25,000
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY$25,000
NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST RI HOSPITAL TRUST$20,000
HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM$15,132
FIRST PARISH IN CONCORD$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $1k → 8%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $500 → 8%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $500 → 8%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
DE
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.3M · 49 repeat orgs$854k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
14

Total granted

$9.3M
$726k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+32%

Still filing today

84%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +92%
  • NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $553k · revenue +140%
  • TC
    THE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $543k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -30%
  • CC
    CHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +32%
  • HD
    HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC
    one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue -8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
2
Uss Constitution Museum Inc

The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.

Arts & Culture
3
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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4
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
5
Newburyport Maritime Society Inc

To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History

Arts & Culture
6
Yarmouth Historical Society

To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.

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7
Society for the Preservation of New Engl

We save and share new england's past to engage and inform present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
8
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
9
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
11
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
12
Plymouth Antiquarian Society

The Plymouth Antiquarian Society is a non-profit educational institution that collects, preserves, and interprets historic houses and artifacts. The Society uses these resources to tell the story of everyday life in Plymouth and New…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Funderburg Scholars 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsPublic Library OperationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr14%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr14%5%35–55yr14%82%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,296

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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
44/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WALLACE KANE CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $2,700,000 · OtherWALLACE KANE CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDMORRIS ARBORETUM — $850,000 · OtherMORRIS ARBORETUMTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM — $542,500 · OtherTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM+24 more — $580,328 · Other+24 moreAppalachian Mountain Club — $1,851,600 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain ClubNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC — $530,418 · EnvironmentNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC+5 more — $95,000 · EnvironmentNEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $552,500 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT HISTORICAL SOC…CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM — $437,340 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SO…MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM …IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC — $170,000 · Arts & CultureIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOL…HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM — $145,132 · Arts & CultureHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSE…HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $400,950 · Arts & Culture+15 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $530,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…Northern Forest Center Inc — $261,500 · EducationNorthern Fo…Funderburg Scholars Inc — $120,000 · EducationFunderburg …AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $65,000 · EducationAMERICAN AN…+5 more — $98,750 · Education+5 moreCHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterLUCY'S HEARTH — $17,000 · Housing & ShelterCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropySEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE INC — $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,672,828Environment$2,477,018Arts & Culture$2,140,922Education$1,075,250Housing & Shelter$217,000Philanthropy$85,000Food & Nutrition$29,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $1,851,600 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetNEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $552,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM — $542,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC — $530,418 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $530,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM — $437,340 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc — $261,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC — $170,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM — $145,132 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetFunderburg Scholars Inc — $120,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC — $110,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON UMBRELLA INC — $56,750 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES — $55,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION — $51,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHISTORIC MORVEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST — $35,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNEWPORT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $35,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION — $32,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST — $22,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST — $21,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPRESERVE RHODE ISLAND — $21,200 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST — $21,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH — $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHISTORIC TRAPPE — $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAITI PROJECTS INC — $12,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN MARINE ART INC — $8,100 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncVan Beuren Charitable…The Rhode Island Comm…Hamilton Family Found…Alletta Morris McBean…Middlecott FoundationFrederick Henry Princ…The Champlin Foundati…Neil & Anna Rasmussen…Fidelity FoundationWinifred M Purdy Foun…Lyn & Margaret Comfor…
Boston Foundation IncMA43.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Winifred M Purdy Foundation · Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable 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 Kane 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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