· Private foundation
Walter F & Alice Gorham Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $20,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH TI D | $10,000 |
| JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASSOCIATION INC | $7,500 |
| YESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS | $5,000 |
| ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SMITH SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $3,000 |
| EMILY'S ENTOURAGE | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $2,500 |
| NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP | $2,000 |
| THEATER DEVELOPMENT FUND | $2,000 |
| CASA OF MORRIS & SUSSEX COUNTY | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +36% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 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
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
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +38%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES7× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +115%- BSBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IHISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +114%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH TI Done grant, 2024 · $10k
- JWJEFFREY WACKS MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $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.
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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Development Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 34 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Elizabeth University ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds DREW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Walter F & Alice Gorham Foundation Inc 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Saint Elizabeth University — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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