· Private foundation
The Wild Gifting Project
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k48 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAWC HEALTHCARE | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $180,900 |
| ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $150,000 |
| 1IN6 SUPPORT | $150,000 |
| GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120,000 |
| STREET HEALTH DC | $105,000 |
| LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES | $100,000 |
| WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH | $100,000 |
| AUTISTIC PEOPLE OF COLOR FUND | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| IF FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BLACK LOTUS HOLISTIC HEALTH COLLECTIVE | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Wild Gifting Project’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 49 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WSWho Speaks for Me Project3× · 2022–2024 · $689k · revenue +35% · 82% of their budget
- CNCO-COUNSEL NYC INC2× · 2024–2025 · $236k · revenue +194%
- VVVOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +15% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- CBCT BAIL FUNDone grant, 2022 · $200k
- APAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -21% · 38% of their budget
- 4C4 CIRCLES AND BEYONDone grant, 2023 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.
The Organization is a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation.
The Institute for Black Justice purpose is to relentlessly pursue equity and justice for all with people of Black African descent as our first priority. The IBJs mission is three-fold: to be an advocate for fairness and equity; to be an…
Service Never Sleeps (SNS) envisions a world where equal rights, justice, and opportunity are available to all. Through its signature Allyship curriculum, SNS trains individuals to leverage their respective areas of privilege to advance…
MIP helps nonprofit organizations build their capacity to identify, recuit and retain people of color for board and staff leadership roles. MIP also trains people of color to servie on nonprofit boards.
Revolution Institute's purpose is to liberate the expansive potential of African-American and Latinx communities through sustainable, future-oriented work, entrepreneurship, and value-aligned collaborations.
The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.
DBI vision is for every daughter with an incarcerated parent to live a healthy stable life and have a strong, positive, relationship with her parent during and after incarceration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mothers Outreach Network and the most unlike its peers is If Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 6 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 33% of your grantees by number, and just 33% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Who Speaks for Me Project ↗
- Who funds Fringe Public Health ↗
- Who funds MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CO-COUNSEL NYC INC ↗
- Who funds Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC ↗
- Who funds GUNVIOLENCEARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERATED SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds KATAL CENTER FOR EQUITY HEALTH AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURING JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Street Health Dc Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL CAPITAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds 4DASOIL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The Peoples Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Exposure Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER DC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · England Family Foundation · If Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Wild Gifting Project funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Girls for Technology Inc — 80% of income from government
- Unashamed Inc — 75% of income from government
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Keney Park Sustainability Project — 37% of income from government
- Parents Available to Help Inc (Path) — 37% of income from government
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
- Black Mothers in Power — 18% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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