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Warren Cross Foundation
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 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 $10k24 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| DANA HALL SCHOOL | $51,250 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL | $46,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CHURCH | $30,000 |
| TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $5,250 |
| WELLESLEY SERVICE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ORANGE AND BLUE CLUB | $5,000 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE | $3,500 |
| NEWTON WELLESLY HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SEVEN LAKES ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BHBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $654k · revenue +141%
DANA HALL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $569k · revenue +26%
BABSON COLLEGE7× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MFMANNA FOOD CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -5%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +167%- UOUNIVERSITY OF ST JOSEPHone grant, 2017 · $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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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…
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…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Medfield Food Cupboard. 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 46 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 67 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 BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MOON DOG FARM ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DWELLING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BELGRADE LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Potomac Appalachian Trail Club ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds C&O CANAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HELPS ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE 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: Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Warren Cross 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.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Medfield Food Cupboard — 6% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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