· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $20,000 |
| MIT | $15,000 |
| CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORP | $10,000 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC | $10,000 |
| THE UMBRELLA ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| TIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING | $10,000 |
| OPENTABLE INC | $10,000 |
| CONCORD CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| MIT | $5,000 |
| YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ACRE FAMILY CHILDCARE | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCONCORD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +22%
- CCCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +34%
- CFCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TUTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +24%
- SMSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVALone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
At the children's museum & theatre of maine, we set the stage for every child to imagine and learn through play.
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
The curious kids' museum encourages discovery, wonder and awe for children. this interactive, hands-on playground for the mind fulfills its educational leadership role by stimulating curiosity, awareness and life preparedness in science,…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Discovery Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boulder Parks and Recreation Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds TIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 Near Walden 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.
- Acre Family Child Care Inc — 45% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
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.