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The Wolstencroft Family Foundation at a glance

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The Wolstencroft Family 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.8MInternational$1.7MHealth$1.2MEnvironment$525kSocial Science$525kArts & Culture$100kScience & Tech$30kCivil Rights$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
  • $250k+3 grants · $800k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$275,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$275,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$250,000
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$100,000
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION$100,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$100,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$50,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$50,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITYDEVEL$50,000
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC$25,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$25,000
CHORDOMA FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GLOBAL FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC: $10k → 11%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

ME
NH
ID
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 14 repeat orgs$417k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$5.0M
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-7%

Still filing today

93%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalSocial ScienceEnvironmentCivil 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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +63%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +26%
  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • DC
    Dartmouth College Annual Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $110k
  • TC
    Teachers College Global Mental Health Lab, Columbia University
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • CU
    Columbia University for Global Mental Health
    one grant, 2019 · $37k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
10
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Visions for Public Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Global Fund for Mental Health 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

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Dartmouth College: $1,135,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeBowdoin College: $400,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $318,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN …Teachers College Columbia University: $220,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia UniversitySUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $100,000 · EducationNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $95,000 · Education+3 more: $105,000 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,450,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committ…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $250,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $600,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH …GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $300,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPIT…ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD R…+1 more: $30,000 · HealthSIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $350,000 · OtherSIDWELL FRI…Dartmouth College Annual Fund: $110,000 · OtherDartmouth C…Teachers College Global Mental Health Lab, Columbia University: $75,000 · OtherTeachers Co…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITYDEVEL: $50,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKI…Columbia University for Global Mental Health: $37,000 · OtherSidwell Friends School Annual Fund: $25,000 · OtherTHE AMAZON BIODIVERSITY CENTER: $25,000 · OtherNISHIMACHI FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $10,017 · OtherTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $525,000 · Social ScienceConservation Lands Foundation: $500,000 · EnvironmentTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Civil RightsThe Global Fund for Mental Health Inc: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$2,373,000International$1,700,000Health$1,030,000Other$707,017Social Science$525,000Environment$500,000Civil Rights$25,000Human Services$10,000

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 budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $600,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $525,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $500,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBowdoin College: $400,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $318,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $220,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $100,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE AMAZON BIODIVERSITY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNISHIMACHI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetThe Global Fund for Mental Health Inc: $10,000 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Wolstencroft Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wolstencroft Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 29 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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