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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 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 $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 |
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Weld Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 59%.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE ↗
- 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 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND PREVENTION FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Weld Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weld Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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