· Private foundation
The Orchard Foundation
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 $10k59 grants · $181k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARTHJUSTICE | $194,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL FBO ANN ROMNEY CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE | $173,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $145,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $106,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $101,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MCLEANS HOSPITAL FBO CENTER FOR NEUROREGENERATION RESEARCH | $71,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE | $57,000 |
| RAINFOREST ALLIANCE | $53,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $51,000 |
| MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL MARROW DONATION PROGRAM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $23,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 99% of The Orchard Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 3%.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
118 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 24 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EARTHJUSTICE6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +16%- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College6× · 2020–2025 · $464k · revenue +28%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $380k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- NENEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- PFPhysicians For Reproductive Healthgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +27%
- SSSOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
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…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
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.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
How this is measured
154 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. 154 of the 223 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Monadnock Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds MISS INC OF THE TREASURE COAST ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DEFEND OUR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Cape Elizabeth Land Trust ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Onion Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Orchard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Orchard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc: 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Scituate Food Pantry Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- New England Center for Circus Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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