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The Redwall Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Redwall Foundation Inc

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.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$300kReligion$100kYouth Development$25kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CONCORD ACADEMNY: $5k → 8%TOM PORTER RELIGION & CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION ENDOWMENT (BOSTON UNIVERSITY): $10k → 16%VASSAR COLLEGE: $5k → 9%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL: $5k → 11%CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL: $330k → 12%PROCTOR ACADEMY: $5k → 7%HISTORIC HARRISVILLE: $100k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $503k → 13%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $5k → 8%WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%VASSAR COLLEGE: $100k → 9%CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL: $250k → 12%THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HARRISVILLE AND CHESHAM: $100k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $499k → 13%THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $20k → 8%CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL: $250k → 12%HISTORIC HARRISVILLE: $100k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $100k → 13%THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $5k → 8%CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL: $225k → 12%HISTORIC HARRISVILLE: $75k → 9%BATES COLLEGE: $5k → 13%CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL: $200k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 5 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$2.8M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +9%
  • HH
    HISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $275k · revenue +23%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHURCH-HARRISVILLE & CHESHAM
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • WGBH Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • TP
    TOM PORTER RELIGION & CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION ENDOWMENT (BOSTON UNIVERSITY)
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
3
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
4
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
5
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
6
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Trustees of Lawrence Academy At Groton Ma Corp

Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
10
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
11
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
12
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kingswood Oxford School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,255,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $1,107,304 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE+6 more: $50,000 · EducationHISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC: $275,355 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HA…WGBH Educational Foundation: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educat…VASSAR COLLEGE: $105,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHURCH-HARRISVILLE & CHESHAM: $100,000 · OtherTOM PORTER RELIGION & CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION ENDOWMENT (BOSTON UNIVERSITY): $10,000 · Other
Education$2,412,304Arts & Culture$300,355Other$215,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,255,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $1,107,304 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC: $275,355 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Redwall Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Redwall Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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