· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ORANGE AND BLUE CLUB | $5,000 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE | $3,500 |
| NEWTON WELLESLY HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| SEVEN LAKES ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 67 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 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DWELLING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds BELGRADE LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HELPS ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Warren Cross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren Cross Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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