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Weld 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 $10k34 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $391k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $547k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING | $140,250 |
| PINGREE SCHOOL | $118,170 |
| SALEM HOSPITAL | $104,900 |
| MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $61,350 |
| GREAT ROCK CHURCH | $61,350 |
| WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC | $61,350 |
| BEAUFORT ACADEMY | $38,200 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION (CAPA) | $30,000 |
| MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY | $30,000 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION | $20,000 |
| MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM | $17,700 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $17,350 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PORTLAND | $16,350 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $12,270 |
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, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Weld Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- NHNORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING9× · 2017–2025 · $708k · revenue +6% · 31% of their budget
THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $648k · revenue +50%- TBTHE BEAUFORT ACADEMY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $354k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF COUNTYPETSone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SESEACOAST EAT LOCAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +29%
- MDMarys Dog Rescue & Adoptiongraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +33%
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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
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…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Haven Historical Society. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 125 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 NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEAUFORT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Watermans Community Center ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Lake Champlain Waldorf School ↗
- Who funds KATHMANDU VALLEY PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND PREVENTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HPF-RESCUE-REHAB-REHOME ↗
- Who funds Literacy Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Middlecott Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Haven Trust · Strypemonde Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Angel Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Amica Companies 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 Weld 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.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Waldorf School — 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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