· Private foundation
Pamela Whitcomb Larsen 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH | $30,000 |
| PKD FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $30,000 |
| GLOBAL LINKS | $25,000 |
| SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| MILLIS ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| TIDELINES | $10,000 |
| MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD | $10,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| HERRING GUT COASTAL SCIENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOLLISTON FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| ARISE RWANDA MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| DOORWAYS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 2 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
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
- PFPKD Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +90%
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +202%
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HIHand in Hand Mano en Manograduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +152%
- GRGEORGES RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $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.
Pci is a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health end hunger, overcome hardship and advance women & girls-resulting in meaningful and measurable change in people's lives.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
End hunger together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Medfield Food Cupboard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LINKS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Amilia's Light Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds ARISE RWANDA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HERRING GUT COASTAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
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.
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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 Pamela Whitcomb Larsen 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Medfield Food Cupboard — 6% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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.
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