How much did THE WILD GIFTING PROJECT grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE WILD GIFTING PROJECT’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

buildingvictimincarceration deportationgirlslgbtqgroups

2023

psychedelicfoster caresex traffickingimpacted foodfood apartheidabortionaffected racism

2024

filmmentoringenvironmental justicefilmmakersaddressbiashiring

2025

leadersstatesincreasedifferencedisabilitybirthingcreating

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 57 grants

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

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

WAWC HEALTHCARE$200,000
THE HEALING UNDERGROUND$180,900
ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY JUSTICE$150,000
1IN6 SUPPORT$150,000
GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE$150,000
MOSQUITO FLEET$120,000
STREET HEALTH DC$105,000
SISTER SONG$100,000
LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES$100,000
IF FOUNDATION$100,000
SPEAK TRUTH AMERICA$100,000
WILLBLISS PREGNANCY SUPPORT$100,000
BLACK LOTUS HOLISTIC HEALTH COLLECTIVE$100,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$100,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH$100,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 12% 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.

THE WILD GIFTING PROJECTlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.8M · 17 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+88%

Still filing today

65%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationCivil RightsOther

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

MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +1116%
AUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK
2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +1583%
VV
VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC
2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +105% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

AP
AMPHITHEATER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +52%
CB
CT BAIL FUND
one grant, 2022 · $200k
4C
4 CIRCLES AND BEYOND
one grant, 2023 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Omowale Project Inc

The Omowale Project is a transformative organization dedicated to fostering repair, wholeness, and systemic change within social justice movements. We recognize that those leading the charge for equity and justice often bear the weight of…

Civil Rights

Black Feminist Future Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc

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Sustain Equity Group

Promote violence prevention leadership, development and networking opportunities for Black women and girls.

Community Improvement

Powerful Voices

Powerful Voices mission is to create brave spaces with BIPOC girls & gender expansive youth to take charge of their own power as leaders, igniting their abilities to confidently express themselves, build community, and act against…

Human Services

Blackfem Inc

Blackfem partners with the nation's most forward-thinking governmental bodies and activists to reimagine wealth building opportunities for black women.

Human Services

Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

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.

International

Digital Girl Incorporated

Digital Girl, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in Brooklyn, NY. DGI is dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of our communities, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM (Science, Technology,…

Education

Women Empowering Nations Inc

Women Empowering Nations provides exposure,development and mentorship for girls of color in underserved communities to accelerate their path to executive leadership.

Education

Blackroots Alliance

Our mission is to be an organization & network committed to the safety and liberation of all Black people promoting Black leadership and Black-centered community transformation as we work to collectively to build social and economic power.

Civil Rights

Fair Pay Workplace

To create economic equality and empowerment for women and BIPOC in the workplace by dismantling systems of pay inequity based on gender, race and their intersection.

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Cohort Sistas Inc

Our mission is to foster inclusive pathways to advanced research doctorates by enhancing the recruitment retention success and well-being of historically excluded students especially Black women.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Dc and the most unlike its peers is Fringe Public Health. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/74

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,491

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.

06the grantee network

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/59

Grantees still filing

39/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,419,846Human Services$1,273,006Health$781,716Education$550,500Crime & Legal$529,463Arts & Culture$324,000Civil Rights$300,000

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.

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.

William Caspar Graustein Memorial FundCT15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRINGE PUBLIC HEALTH INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 921103797 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRINGE PUBLIC HEALTH INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Wild Gifting Project?

Find your warmest path to The Wild Gifting Project through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE WILD GIFTING PROJECT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wild Gifting Project?

More from the funding graph

THE WILD GIFTING PROJECT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wild Gifting Project?

More from the funding graph