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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CONCORD MUSEUM$75,000
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PA$75,000
IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES$50,000
FUNDERBURG SCHOLARS INC$35,000
SEACOAST EAT LOCAL$25,000
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY$25,000
WINTERTHUR MUSEUM$25,000
NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST RI HOSPITAL TRUST$20,000
HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM$15,132
FIRST PARISH IN CONCORD$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
DE
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
44/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetNEWPORT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $35,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCONCORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $35,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% 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 budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC TRAPPE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHAITI PROJECTS INC: $12,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 budgetThe Farm School Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kane Wallace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kane Wallace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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