· Private foundation
Vila B Webber 1985 Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Roxbury Latin School | $60,000 |
| The Farm School | $35,000 |
| Women's Lunch Place | $30,000 |
| Wendell P Clark Memorial YMCA | $27,800 |
| Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities & Public Policy Inc | $25,000 |
| Rosie's Place | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +28%
- TFThe Farm School Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +76%
- WLWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- WHWashington Humane Society fbo St Hubert's Animal Welfare Centerone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BDBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +152%
YEAR UP INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -18%
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.
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.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Teaching children of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds to expand the limits of their neighborhood and to open the doors to better communications between children and adults.
Learning prep school provides a language-based educational program for students with complex learning profiles, empowering them to build academic, social, and life skills in a supportive environment so they can lead independent, fulfilling…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Apprentice learning provides real-world work experiences for middle school students. we leverage career exploration to teach skills and to nuture dreams.
To provide research facilities to members and to the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the massachusetts government.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Meadowbrook knows, loves, and challenges every child. together, as a diverse community with high academic, ethical and social standards, we nurture character, promote confidence, inspire creativity and foster critical thinking skills as we…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Farm School Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WENDELL P CLARK MEMORIAL YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vila B Webber 1985 Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vila B Webber 1985 Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc: 45% of income from government
- The Farm School Inc: 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc: 4% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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