· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $25,000 |
| TOWN OF MONSON | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| OPACUM LAND TRUSTMASSCONN SUSTAINABLE FOREST PROJECT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF MONSON | $5,000 |
| TOWN OF HOLLAND | $5,000 |
| VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES | $2,500 |
| TOWN OF UNION | $2,500 |
| NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE | $2,500 |
| NIPMUC INDIAN COUNCIL NIPMUC CULTURAL HUNT & FISH | $2,500 |
| WALES SENIOR CENTER | $2,500 |
| LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $2,500 |
| EAGLE EYE INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 92%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOTHE OPACUM LAND TRUST INC2× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +132%
- BOBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +199%
- LLLINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- UFUMASS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
- BFBLACK FARMER FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- NFNORTHEAST FARMERS OF COLOR LAND TRUST CO RESIST INCone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Conservation and preservation of land.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
To foster the sustainable use of our natural and historic resources for the benefit of all generations through the conservation and stewardship of the farmlands, woodlands, and water in our region of massachusetts.
Merrimack river watershed council's mission is to protect the merrimack river watershed and promote the wise use of its watershed. this is accomplished through water quality monitoring, land restoration and protection, watershed education…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 63 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 THE OPACUM LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LAND TRUST COALITION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE EYE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KESTREL LAND TRUST 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norcross Wildlife Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
- Holyoke Rows Inc: 21% of income from government
- Franklin Land Trust Inc: 7% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Eagle Eye Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc: 1% of income from government
- Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Biodiversityworks Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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