New York · Private foundation
The Willow 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $128k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Willow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $30k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $30k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $30k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $30k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $30k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $30k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $30k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth on Their Own | $54,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwest Center | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 350org | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saveabunny | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Cinematheque | $5,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Our Rescue | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth on Their Own | $54,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Northwest Center | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 350org | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saveabunny | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Cinematheque | $5,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Our Rescue | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Downtown Women's Center | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The San Francisco School | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Priests of the Sacred Heart | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Immaculate Heart Media Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Concerns of Police Survivors | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Central Association of the Miraculous Medal | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Society of the Little Flower | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kalw Public Media Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Willow Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Willow Foundation
- How much does The Willow Foundation give?
- The Willow Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Willow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Environment (21%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Willow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth on Their Own ($54k), Northwest Center ($29k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($12k).
- Does The Willow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Willow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Willow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verizon Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Willow Foundation based?
- The Willow Foundation is based in NY.
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