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Near Walden 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.

$163k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$80kHuman Services$73kFood & Nutrition$65kEducation$50kPhilanthropy$23kScience & Tech$20kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Near Walden Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Urban Food Initiative Inc$50,00011%
Discovery Museum Inc$40,00020%
Concord Children's Center Inc$35,00021%
Concord Carlisle Foundation Inc$30,00022%
Museum of Science$20,00010%
Concord Free Public Library Corporation$20,00021%
Household Goods Inc$15,00020%
Open Table Inc$15,00020%
Acre Family Child Care Inc$12,50020%
Timeslips Creative Storytelling Inc$10,00015%
Strings Music Festival$5,00010%
Boulder Parks and Recreation Foundation$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Near Walden Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Urban Food Initiative Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDiscovery Museum Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetConcord Children's Center Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetConcord Carlisle Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMuseum of Science: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Free Public Library Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHousehold Goods Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOpen Table Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAcre Family Child Care Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTimeslips Creative Storytelling Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetStrings Music Festival: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder Parks and Recreation Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 IncMA18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · The Jaket Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Concord Carlisle Foundation Inc · Kane Wallace Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Near Walden Foundation

How much does Near Walden Foundation give?
Near Walden Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $162,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Near Walden Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (22%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
Who are Near Walden Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: The Urban Food Initiative Inc ($50k), Discovery Museum Inc ($40k), Concord Children's Center Inc ($35k).
Does Near Walden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Near Walden Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Analog Devices Foundation, The Jaket Foundation.
Where is Near Walden Foundation based?
Near Walden Foundation is based in MA.

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 17 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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