Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Willow Tree Fund
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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,992,538
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,992,538
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations The Willow Tree Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 1 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $2.0M | 80% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $4.8M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $1.9M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $11M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $4.7M | 75% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $964k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $475k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $1,024,485 | 1 | 2% |
| Trinity Boston Connects Inc | $971,767 | 1 | 30% |
| UTEC Inc | $942,600 | 1 | 11% |
| Values United | $500,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Protect Democracy Project | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voto Latino Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Onyx Impact Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The American Independent Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Shore Community Development Coalit | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mi Amore Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Willow Tree Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About The Willow Tree Fund
- How much does The Willow Tree Fund give?
- The Willow Tree Fund reported 1 grants totaling $1,992,538 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Willow Tree Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (83%), Youth Development (8%), Education (4%).
- Who are The Willow Tree Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buckingham Browne & Nichols School ($1.0M), Trinity Boston Connects Inc ($972k), UTEC Inc ($943k).
- Does The Willow Tree Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Willow Tree Fund 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 Tree Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Willow Tree Fund based?
- The Willow Tree Fund is based in MA.
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