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The Wyeth 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONHEGAN ISLAND ASSOCIATES | $50,000 |
| THE CONCEPT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PASTURES OF POINT LOOKOUT | $42,100 |
| FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | $29,100 |
| HERRING GUT COASTAL SCIENCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| SHELBURNE MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST GEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| MISCA | $10,000 |
| MIDCOAST RECREATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| GEORGES RIVER LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATER | $7,500 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| BRANDYWINE BATTLEFIELD PARK ASSN | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TWTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $495k · revenue +62%
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art5× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +144%
- MAMONHEGAN ASSOCIATES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue +367%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +22%- DMDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +2%
- VCVETERINARY COMPARATIVE ONCOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Monhegan Museum of Art & History stewards and shares the cultural memory of the Island to connect people to this place, its history and each other.
To work collectively in maine to create mutually beneficial relationships with the earth, communities, and people through the conservation movement.
Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf of Maine Research Institute and the most unlike its peers is Primitive Hall Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PASTURES OF POINT LOOKOUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds HERRING GUT LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONHEGAN ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STGEORGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HERRING GUT COASTAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CONCEPT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Georges River Land Trust ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE BATTLEFIELD PARK ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TREKKERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHADDS FORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST RECREATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Music Academy ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Edward Freitag & Martha Haley Fdn Inc · The K2 Family Foundation · Vinton Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Wyeth Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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