· Private foundation
The Zoe Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $80,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA | $35,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $16,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| DAKIN HUMANE SHELTER | $15,000 |
| TAPESTRY HEALTH | $15,000 |
| MANNA SOUP KITCHEN | $14,000 |
| TJ O'CONNOR ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER | $13,000 |
| CENTER FOR SELF-RELIANCE | $12,000 |
| CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| FISHER HOME | $12,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| NET SHELTERS | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $467k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +53% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +133%- NSNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +44%
- SPSAFE PASSAGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +89%
Funded once
BARD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +241%- WMWINTERTHUR MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- THTHE HOSPICE OF THE FISHER HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Family access empowers and strengthens families and the community by providing programs that nurture child development, prevent trauma, promote effective parenting skills, and support working parents. for more than 117 years, family access…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of opacum land trust is to engage communities in protecting the land, water, and wildlife in south-central massachusetts for the benefit of current and future generations.
Easton area neighborhood centers, inc. (eanc) is committed to providing an array of services that enhance the quality of life for low- and moderate-income residents of northampton county. through innovative programming, educational…
To foster and improve the general economic conditions of the north central massacusetts area through promotional and educational efforts.
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,…
To serve as a model community access organization providing programming and educational opportunities to the community through all means technologically available.
Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kestrel Land Trust. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 60 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 THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds KESTREL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Northampton Community Music Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds PASCOMMUCK CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER ON INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY SURVIVAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Ro Family Foundation · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · Living Springs 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 Zoe 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Soldier On Inc — 83% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Riverside Industries Inc — 61% of income from government
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Manna Soup Kitchen — 15% of income from government
- Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Historic Northampton Inc — 0% 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.