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The Mo and Cher Willems 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.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$580kFood & Nutrition$556kArts & Culture$81kCivil Rights$32kHealth$22kHuman Services$21kPhilanthropy$16kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$115k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MA$250,000
FIRST BOOK$75,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPRINGFIELD RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 17%MARTIN LUTHER KING FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 17%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $40k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%PIONEER VALLEY WORKER CENTER: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
77

Total granted

$1.1M
$283k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+52%

Still filing today

100%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $483k · revenue +95%
  • NS
    NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $65k · revenue +54%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -5%
  • NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +127%
  • T
    THEATREWASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
3
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations

The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
Npr Foundation

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…

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12
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceElementary Literacy TutoringHomeless Services & ShelterClassical Music EnsemblesIndependent K-8 SchoolsLand Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Ymca Community CentersPublic School District Foun…Government Accountability R…Public Library SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Lgbtq+ Community CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsEducation Equity Leadership
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%49%20–35yr13%46%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

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.

04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $483,333 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC+46 more — $123,400 · Other+46 moreFIRST BOOK — $488,000 · EducationFIRST BOOKDONORSCHOOSEORG — $60,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG+12 more — $25,100 · EducationNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesMARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC — $3,000 · Human Services+4 more — $3,250 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBALDWIN FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureClubbed Thumb Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists Inc — $6,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $14,750 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $9,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 · Civil RightsGLSEN INC — $2,500 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Civil RightsNORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC — $5,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $1,000 · InternationalSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $500 · InternationalTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$606,733Education$573,100Human Services$71,250Arts & Culture$53,500Civil Rights$33,750International$14,500Crime & Legal$13,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIRST BOOK — $488,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $483,333 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC — $65,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATREWASHINGTON — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $14,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALDWIN FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY ARTS TRUST INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBESS THE BOOK BUS INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVICES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPSHIRE REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHAMPTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGLSEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEA THEATER ARTS CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ANIMATION PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CONNECTION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Beveridge Family …Florence Savings Char…The Zoe FoundationEasthampton Savings B…Ro Family FoundationSelect Equity Group F…Hurdle Hill FoundationPeoplesbank Charitabl…The Food Bank of West…Boston Foundation IncAgnes M Lindsay Trust
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA43.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Zoe Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Ro Family Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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 Mo and Cher Willems 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Manna Soup Kitchen — 15% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Shea Theater Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Historic Northampton Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Bess the Book Bus Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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