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The Wizcat Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$357k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$521kArts & Culture$518kHealth$37kEnvironment$30kInternational$23kYouth Development$21kHuman Services$20kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$200,000
WALNUT HILL SCHOOL$55,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$23,000
DANA FARBER JIMMY FUND$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$6,033
DOCTOR'S WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$5,000
NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC$5,000
THE WINSOR SCHOOL$5,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$4,987
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA$3,323
NANTUCKET LAND COUNCIL$3,109
BERKLEE COLLEGE$3,075
ROSIE'S PLACE$3,000
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL$3,000
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 (FY22–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $2k → 16%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 24 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
8

Total granted

$1.2M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+15%

Still filing today

79%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +138%
  • WH
    WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +19%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • RF
    Rodman For Kids Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -75%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • BU
    BRAC USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +48%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
11
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $500,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INCWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $155,000 · EducationWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC+3 more: $20,500 · EducationMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $348,500 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $19,968 · Other+20 more: $55,052 · Other+20 moreNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $5,118 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $3,109 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,020 · EnvironmentDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $9,987 · InternationalBRAC USA INC: $3,000 · InternationalFEED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalRodman For Kids Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Education$675,500Other$423,520Environment$26,247Health$25,000International$23,987Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $500,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $155,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $19,968 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $9,987 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $5,118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $4,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $4,073 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $3,109 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Wizcat Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wizcat Foundation 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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home