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W Second Growth 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.

$323k
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$323kHealth$171kEnvironment$147kHuman Services$137kYouth Development$130kAnimals$112kInternational$95kFood & Nutrition$81kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $216k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $107k
$4,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RAPTOR CENTER$20,000
MISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION$15,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$12,000
BROOKS SCHOOL$10,000
NORTHLAND COLLEGE$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
MULTICARE HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
YALE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT$10,000
EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
ALSAC - ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$9,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA (PPFA)$9,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$8,000
FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS$8,000
GIVE MERIT$8,000
MACALESTER COLLEGE$7,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $10k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $5k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $5k → 9%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 18%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $3k → 9%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 18%FAMILY EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $2k → 9%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 18%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 18%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $23k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%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
VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of W Second Growth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

W Second Growth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 51 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
16

Total granted

$1.2M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+6%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MP
    MISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $59k · revenue +91%
  • WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +49%
  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -324%
  • S
    Sidewalk
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -91%
  • DC
    DAKOTA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -45%
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
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metairie Park Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Olympia Tumwater Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 78 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE RAPTOR CENTER: $104,500 · OtherTHE RAPTOR CENTERPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA (PPFA): $39,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA (PPFA)GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO…CAMBRIDGE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $23,000 · OtherCETOS RESEARCH ORGANIZATION: $21,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $21,000 · OtherNative American Heritage Association: $35,000 · OtherNative American Heritage AssociationGIVE MERIT INC: $22,500 · OtherCAMP MISHAWAKA: $50,000 · OtherCAMP MISHAWAKAEAGLES WINGS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION: $27,500 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $27,500 · Other+27 more: $163,300 · Other+27 moreNORTHLAND COLLEGE: $70,750 · EducationNORTHLAND COLLEGEYale University: $37,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLE…BROOKS SCHOOL: $26,000 · EducationBROOKS SCHOOLMACALESTER COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationMACALESTER COLLEGEThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $25,000 · EducationThe President and Trustee…BAYLOR SCHOOL: $23,250 · EducationBAYLOR SCHOOLWRIGHT FLIGHT INC: $20,000 · EducationWRIGHT FLIGHT INCGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $19,000 · EducationGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL+7 more: $40,000 · Education+7 moreHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $54,000 · HealthHAZELDEN …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $16,500 · HealthPLANNED P…MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $15,000 · HealthMULTICARE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $14,250 · HealthST JUDE C…MAYDAY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthMAYDAY FO…Northfield Hospital Foundation: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $58,500 · EnvironmentMISSISSIP…FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $39,200 · EnvironmentFOREST HI…GREAT RIVER PASSAGE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentFRESH ENERGY: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,750 · EnvironmentPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $31,250 · Human ServicesOpen Door Community Center: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $23,500 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $23,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,750 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,500 · Arts & CultureWHITE PASS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $26,500 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $17,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $57,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$605,300Education$316,000Health$117,250Environment$110,450Human Services$106,500Arts & Culture$71,500Public Safety & Disaster$57,500

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 budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE: $70,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $58,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $57,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MISHAWAKA: $50,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $39,200 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetYale University: $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $31,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES WINGS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION: $27,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE PASS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $26,500 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Community Center: $25,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $23,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $22,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWRIGHT FLIGHT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $14,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYDAY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSidewalk: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER PASSAGE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDAKOTA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristodora Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH ENERGY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAITIAN PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 Community Foundat…Thurston County Econo…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Dawkins Charitable Tr…Medina FoundationXcel Energy FoundationCredit Unions in the …Ibm International Fou…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Select Equity Group F…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Minneapolis Found…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Dawkins Charitable Trust · Medina Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union · Ibm International Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 W Second Growth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Second Growth 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • King Street Center Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to W Second Growth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to W Second Growth Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 78 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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