· Private foundation
The Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE ESTHER & MORTON WOHLGEMUTH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k138 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $11,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVATORY | $11,000 |
| PACIFIC FOREST TRUST | $10,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NAACP | $5,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISREAL | $3,250 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| RAINN | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
187 repeat relationships — 129 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 12 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +74%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +102%- TPThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +658%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +99%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +12%- WCWESLEY COLLEGE GEORGE MCLAUGHLIN SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mighty Earth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Felines & Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
153 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. 153 of the 262 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon Parks Forever ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · The Ford Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · St Vincent Hospital · The Abeles Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc
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 The Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 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.
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