· Private foundation
The Dudley H and Sally S Willis Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $8,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SHADY HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHATHAM HALL | $5,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SHERBORN RURAL LAND FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WBUR | $3,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $3,000 |
| NORWICH UNIVERISTY | $3,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDOBON SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| WCRB | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +1%
- SHSHADY HILL SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +15%
- SRSHERBORN RURAL LAND FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue ×23
Funded once
- SASTATEMENT Aone grant, 2019 · $27k
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +13%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -7%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 45 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHERBORN RURAL LAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERBORN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds SHERBORN COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOVER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Haven Trust · Fidelity Foundation · Triple T Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dudley H and Sally S Willis Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dudley H and Sally S Willis Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
- Norwich University: 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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