Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc
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.
- $168k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $168k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $142k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $137k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $144k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $140k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $138k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monson School District Granite Valley Middle School | $155,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Opacum Land Trust Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Billion Oyster Project Inc | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lincoln Land Conservation Trust | $10,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition | $8,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Council on the Environment Inc | $7,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc | $6,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Eagle Eye Institute Inc | $2,750 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($573k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Patagoniaorg · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Nature Conservancy · Davis Conservation Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Living Springs Foundation · Bafflin Foundation · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Tides Center · Maine Community Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc
- How much does The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc give?
- The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $167,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (38%), Philanthropy (29%), Public Benefit (24%).
- Who are The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Monson School District Granite Valley Middle School ($155k), The Opacum Land Trust Inc ($27k), Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust ($25k).
- Does The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Nature Conservancy.
- Where is The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc based?
- The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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