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Towards Sustainability 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cornell University - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | $110,000 |
| Cornell University - Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future | $110,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $100,000 |
| Tufts University - Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy | $95,000 |
| Food Project | $30,000 |
| Womens Microfinance Initiative | $30,000 |
| MADRE | $25,000 |
| Oxfam-America | $25,000 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society | $25,000 |
| Nature Conservancy - MA Chapter | $25,000 |
| GreenPeace Fund | $25,000 |
| Rainforest Alliance | $25,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt | $25,000 |
| Green America | $25,000 |
| Rodale Institute | $20,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $510k · revenue +26%- WMWOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue +40%
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SHSELF HELP AFRICA INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -36%
- SHSelf Help Africaone grant, 2023 · $10k
- JDJARDIN DE AMORgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
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.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
To support the education and training of people residing in or around tropical rainforest areas regarding agroforestry systems and techniques to create sustainable jobs and to conserve the fragile ecosystem of such rainforest areas.
Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organization for Tropical Studies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gather. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds Red Tomato Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds VAMOS ADELANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Farm School Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIK ESPERANZA ↗
- Who funds SELF HELP AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Gather ↗
- Who funds JARDIN DE AMOR ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Towards Sustainability 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.
- The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.
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