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The Wild Gifting Project at a glance

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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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$200k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MEducation$931kCivil Rights$684kCommunity Improvement$675kYouth Development$607kArts & Culture$363kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k48 grants · $4.1M
$75,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAWC HEALTHCARE$200,000
Individual grant recipient$180,900
1IN6 SUPPORT$150,000
ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY JUSTICE$150,000
GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE$150,000
Individual grant recipient$120,000
STREET HEALTH DC$105,000
AUTISTIC PEOPLE OF COLOR FUND$100,000
EXPOSURE PROJECT$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
IF FOUNDATION$100,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$100,000
BLACK LOTUS HOLISTIC HEALTH COLLECTIVE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
SISTER SONG$100,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLACK MOTHERS IN POWER: $75k → 10%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA: $50k → 8%ARTISTIC APOTHECARY: $97k → 14%MOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK INC: $80k → 14%THE MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR HISTORY AND COMMUNITY INC: $80k → 9%SISTER SONG: $100k → 13%OUR SISTER OUR BROTHER: $50k → 11%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $50k → 8%MAMATOTO VILLAGE: $250k → 14%BALTIMORE SAFE HAVEN: $90k → 19%OUR SISTERS OUR BROTHERS: $50k → 11%THE SAFE SISTERS CIRCLE: $61k → 14%RESTORING IVY COLLECTIVE INC: $30k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $50k → 14%GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE: $150k → 14%AYUDA INC: $70k → 14%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

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Wild Gifting Project’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 18%.

The Wild Gifting Projectlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 18 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
43

Total granted

$3.1M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

72%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • WS
    Who Speaks for Me Project
    3× · 2022–2024 · $689k · revenue +35% · 82% of their budget
  • CN
    CO-COUNSEL NYC INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $236k · revenue +194%
  • VV
    VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +15% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • CB
    CT BAIL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • AP
    Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -21% · 38% of their budget
  • 4C
    4 CIRCLES AND BEYOND
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
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
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
2
Forward Together

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…

Health
3
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

—
4
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
5
Institute for Black Justice

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…

Civil Rights
6
Service Never Sleeps

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…

Human Services
7
Minority Inclusion Project

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.

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8
Revolution Institute

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.

Employment
9
Justice Policy Institute

The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.

Crime & Legal
10
National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc
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11
Weaving Wellness and Diversity Management Company
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12
Daughters Beyond Incarceration

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mothers Outreach Network; 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.
05the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 112 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
23/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JC PRECIOUS MIND FOUNDATION INC: $231,000 · OtherCT BAIL FUND: $200,000 · OtherAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc: $200,000 · OtherWAWC HEALTHCARE: $200,000 · Other4 CIRCLES AND BEYOND: $200,000 · Other+67 more: $4,601,721 · Other+67 moreMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesMAMATOTO VILLAG…GUNVIOLENCEARCHIVE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesGUNVIOLENCEARCH…VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEER VENTU…SISTERSONG INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INCOUR SISTER OUR BROTHER: $100,000 · Human ServicesOUR SISTER OUR …Artistic Apothecary: $97,207 · Human ServicesArtistic Apothe…Baltimore Safe Haven Corp: $90,000 · Human ServicesBaltimore Safe …MOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK: $80,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS OUTREAC…MARY AND ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER FOR HISTORY AND COMMUNITY: $80,000 · Human ServicesMARY AND ELIZA …Black Mothers in Power: $75,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesSafe Sisters Circle: $60,799 · Human ServicesSCHOOL LEADER LAB: $50,000 · Human Services+2 more: $70,000 · Human ServicesWho Speaks for Me Project: $689,247 · Crime & LegalWho Speaks …CO-COUNSEL NYC INC: $236,341 · Crime & LegalCO-COUNSEL …LOVE146 INC: $75,000 · Crime & LegalLOVE146 INCPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $20,000 · Crime & LegalFringe Public Health: $376,716 · HealthA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $150,000 · HealthStreet Health Dc Inc: $105,000 · HealthAUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK: $100,000 · HealthCOPE FOUNDATION 19 INC: $50,000 · HealthSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $155,500 · EducationSOCIAL CAPITAL ACADEMY: $105,000 · Education4DASOIL: $100,000 · EducationSTUDENT LOAN FUND INC: $100,000 · EducationBlazing Stars Montessori School Inc: $90,000 · EducationBLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementEMPOWER DC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementThe Peoples Place Inc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementACT FOR ALEXANDRIA: $50,000 · Community ImprovementExposure Project Incorporated: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentJASDJOR EMERGING PHILANTHROPISTS INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentUnashamed Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIXED IDENTITY PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS FOR TECHNOLOGY INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Common Ground: $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,632,721Human Services$1,423,006Crime & Legal$1,070,588Health$781,716Education$550,500Community Improvement$370,000Youth Development$350,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWho Speaks for Me Project: $689,247 over 3y, 82% of budgetFringe Public Health: $376,716 over 2y, 99% of budgetMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCO-COUNSEL NYC INC: $236,341 over 2y, 25% of budgetAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $155,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $150,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLIBERATED SUCCESS INC: $135,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetKATAL CENTER FOR EQUITY HEALTH AND JUSTICE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNURTURING JUSTICE INC: $124,200 over 2y, 43% of budgetBLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC: $120,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetStreet Health Dc Inc: $105,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetSOCIAL CAPITAL ACADEMY: $105,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetVOLUNTEER VENTURES MA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEMPOWER DC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetOUR SISTER OUR BROTHER: $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budget4DASOIL: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetExposure Project Incorporated: $100,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Peoples Place Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSTUDENT LOAN FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetROOTED WI INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetArtistic Apothecary: $97,207 over 1y, 91% of budgetBlazing Stars Montessori School Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetJASDJOR EMERGING PHILANTHROPISTS INC: $80,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetMOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK: $80,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBlack Mothers in Power: $75,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPARENTS AVAILABLE TO HELP INC (PATH): $75,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAYUDA INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUnashamed Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetMIXED IDENTITY PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetSCHOOL LEADER LAB: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGIRLS FOR TECHNOLOGY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAMHERST NEIGHBORS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetRestoring Ivy Collective Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetBLACK MUSIC PRESERVATION INC: $29,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetCamp Common Ground: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budget4 CIRCLES BEYOND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetJustice Information Resource Network Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…William Caspar Graust…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Connecticut Health Fo…The Morris and Gwendo…Amalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyHartford Foundation f…England Family Founda…If FoundationWeissberg FoundationPhilip L Graham Fund …
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC19.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Wild Gifting Project?

Find your warmest path to The Wild Gifting Project 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 112 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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