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The Wapack 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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$324kCommunity Improvement$250kEnvironment$80kScience & Tech$75kEducation$61kHousing & Shelter$33kSocial Science$33kHealth$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$261k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION$50,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS$50,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$15,000
DARTMOUTH AL COLLEGE$7,000
MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$5,000
THE RIVER CENTER$5,000
MONADNOCK AREA TRANSITIONAL SHELTER$5,000
NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION$5,000
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL$5,000
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB$5,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$5,000
UNITED WAY FAMILY FUND$2,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$2,000
HARRIS CENTER$1,000
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE RIVER CENTER: $5k → 7%THE RIVER CENTER: $5k → 7%THE RIVER CENTER: $5k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%THE RIVER CENTER: $5k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%THE RIVER CENTER: $5k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
IA
CT
CO
MD
MS
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 21 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
3

Total granted

$654k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+306%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • HE
    HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +84%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +6%
  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +35%
  • MC
    MERCY CORPS DEPT W
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • PM
    PHOENIX MULTISPORT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +306%
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
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

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4
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
5
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
10
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
12
Windsor Hospital Corporation

Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Americares Foundation Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 26 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $300,000 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $250,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATIONHARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $33,000 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOLDARTMOUTH AL COLLEGE: $28,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH AL COLLEGEGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $22,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BA…UNITED WAY FAMILY FUND: $12,000 · OtherUNITED WAY FAMILY FUNDUNTIED WAY FAMILY FUND: $10,000 · OtherFIRST PARISH CHURCH IN WESTON: $10,000 · OtherMONADNOCK AREA TRANSITIONAL SHELTER: $25,000 · OtherMONADNOCK AREA TRANSIT…Monadnock Community Hospital: $25,000 · OtherMonadnock Community Ho…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $13,000 · Other+5 moreMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureAppalachian Mountain Club: $30,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentWellesley College: $33,000 · EducationNorthern Forest Center Inc: $20,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5,500 · EducationTHE RIVER CENTER FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$302,000Community Improvement$250,000Other$188,000Arts & Culture$75,000Environment$60,000Education$58,500Human Services$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMonadnock Community Hospital: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIVER CENTER FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMONADNOCK AREA TRANSITIONAL SHELTER: $25,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds Monadnock Community Hospital ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVER CENTER FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MONADNOCK AREA TRANSITIONAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Wapack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wapack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Wapack Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wapack Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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