· Private foundation
Margaret Walker Purinton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $47,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $36,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LINCOLN SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $16,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $13,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Margaret Walker Purinton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +55%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $244k · revenue +38%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2017 · $6k
SHEILA C SKIP NOWELL LEADERSHIP ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +54%
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SHEILA C SKIP NOWELL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Margaret Walker Purinton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Walker Purinton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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