· Private foundation
The Verano Fund
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATER FOR THE SOUTH SUDAN | $40,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| WELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $8,500 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS | $7,000 |
| TUBMAN | $7,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TRINTY COLLEGE CLASS OF 1940 | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BELMONT DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $3,000 |
| UNRWA USA | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +68%
- IPIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +32%
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TNTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -5%
- WWATERORGone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +8%
- WPWINTERSET PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CUTTYHUNK STEAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Verano Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Verano Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center: 29% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
- Cuttyhunk Steam Academy: 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society: 2% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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