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Wild Geese Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$809k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
56
Grants FY2025
62
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 84
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
17
Total assets, FY2025
$8.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Wild Geese Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving56$809k29%
FY202462$631k50%
FY202354$643k9%
FY202257$936k40%
FY202184$890k31%
FY202081$951k53%
FY201962$865k45%
FY201832$646k56%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCivil Rights$1.0MHealth$866kCommunity Improvement$632kEnvironment$569kYouth Development$509kFood & Nutrition$467kEducation$310kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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RI
CA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 168 grantees
All grantees of Wild Geese Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Berklee College of Music Inc$1,000,00040%
A Step Ahead Foundation Chattanooga Inc$180,00082%
Reproductive Equity Now Inc$175,000414%
La Colaborativa Inc$165,00054%
The City School$146,00081%
Third Sector New England Inc$127,50070%
National Lgbtq Task Force$116,24061%
Esperanza Academy Inc$92,50090%
Building Audacity$90,00044%
The Food Project Inc$85,00080%
Centerlink Inc$83,00051%
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc$72,00071%
Bagly Inc$70,00041%
African Cultural Services Inc$65,50069%
Asian American Resource Workshop Inc$65,00072%
Abortion Care Network$65,00051%
Wellspring Cooperative Corporation$55,00042%
Sero Project Inc$55,00052%
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA$50,00042%
Cooperative Fund of the Northeast Inc$45,00041%
Womens Emergency Network Inc$45,00033%
Interact Inc$45,00062%
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc$45,00061%
The Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth Inc$40,00022%
Franklin County Community Development Corporation$40,00041%
Greenroots Inc$40,00030%
Race Forward$40,00020%
Regional Environmental Council Inc$35,00040%
Boston Food Forest Coalition$35,00042%
Families for Justice as Healing Inc$35,00032%
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues$34,10070%
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States Inc$30,00051%
Healthy Waltham Inc$30,00021%
Family Planning Services of Lorain County$30,00022%
The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc$30,00030%
Berkshire Grown Inc$30,00021%
Boston Area Gleaners Inc$30,00030%
Witness to Mass Incarceration Inc$30,000311%
Maven Leadership Collective$27,50046%
Boston Impact Initiative Fund$25,0001n/a
Mill City Grows Inc$25,00040%
Equality Nc Foundation$25,00031%
United We Dream Network Inc$25,00010%
Bridgercare$25,00030%
Apprentice Learning Inc$25,00041%
Spencer Pride$21,00046%
Petersham Friday Market$20,5006n/a
Community Works West Inc$20,00010%
Out in the Open Inc$20,00042%
EqualityMaine Foundation$20,00022%
Waves Ahead Corp$20,00023%
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice$20,00020%
Step Up For Mental Health$20,000228%
Land for Good Inc$20,00022%
Soul 2 Soul Sisters$20,00031%
Sawhorse Revolution$20,00021%
Brave Space Alliance$20,00030%
Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund$20,00020%
Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc$20,00032%
Backyard Growers Inc$20,00022%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$18,00020%
Hardy Girls Healthy Women Inc$17,50044%
South Sudanese Enrichment for Families Inc$16,00022%
Cape Split Chapel$15,500819%
Elevated Access Inc$15,00020%
Ordinarie Heroes$15,00023%
Boston Casa Inc$15,00021%
Southside Presbyterian Church$15,0001n/a
Osamequin Farm Inc$15,00024%
All-Options$15,00011%
Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc$15,00011%
Out Metrowest Inc$15,00032%
Gender Benders$15,0002n/a
Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical Center$15,00013%
The Theater Offensive Inc$15,00031%
Littleton Community Farm$14,00027%
Providence Student Union$12,50021%
Coastal Foodshed$12,50020%
Girls for Gender Equity Inc$12,0001n/a
Zebra Youth Inc$11,00021%
LGBT Community Center$10,00021%
Nipmuc Indian Development Corp$10,000111%
Repurpose Savannah Inc$10,00011%
Black and Pink Inc$10,00013%
Rvc Seattle$10,00010%
Southerners on New Ground Inc$10,00010%
Newtown Florist Club Inc$10,00019%
Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Ctr$10,00021%
Native American Community Board$10,0001n/a
Apiary for Practical Support Inc$10,00011%
Sisters Unchained Inc$10,0001n/a
Root Social Justice Center Inc$10,00013%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$10,00010%
Ruth Ellis Center$10,00010%
Boston Mobilization Inc$10,0001n/a
Empower Missouri$10,0001n/a
Spoonfuls$10,00020%
Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell$10,00020%
West End Community Center Inc$10,00011%
Somos Familia$10,0002n/a
Gerber-Hart Library & Archives$10,00023%
The Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center$10,00021%
Project Libertad$10,00012%
National Black Justice Coalition Inc$10,00012%
Lasell University$10,00020%
We Are Better Together Warren Daniel Hairston Project Inc$10,00011%
Transcending Barriers$10,0002n/a
Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc$10,00020%
Health Care Without Walls Inc$10,00011%
City Blossoms Inc$10,00020%
Good Call NYC$10,00011%
Seacology$10,00010%
Camp Ten Trees$9,00025%
Hopi School Inc$7,50013%
Bikes Not Bombs Inc$5,00010%
Resist Inc$5,00010%
Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House$5,00010%
Day Eagle Hope Project$5,00019%
Louisville Youth Group Inc$5,00013%
Boulder Pride$5,00011%
Rockwood Leadership Institute$5,00010%
Southwest Public Workers' Union$5,000131%
Farming Falmouth Inc$5,00010%
Alaska Community Action on Toxics$5,00010%
Chinle Planting Hope$5,00011%
Roots Rising Inc$5,0001n/a
Resources for Organizing and Social Change$5,00013%
Our Family Coalition$5,00010%
South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc$5,00011%
Flint Freedom Schools Collaborative$5,00011%
Providence Youth Student Movement$5,00010%
Transgender American Veterans Association$5,0001n/a
Asian American Women's Political Initiative Inc$5,00012%
Transgender Law Center$5,00010%
Center on Halsted$5,00010%
Allied Media Projects Inc$5,00010%
Centro del Obrero Fronterizo Inc$5,0001n/a
Green Beverly 107q Inc$5,00011%
Montana Two Spirit Society$5,00015%
Gaining Ground Inc$5,0001n/a
Project South Inc$5,00010%
Fort Belknap Indian Community$5,0001n/a
Religious Institute Inc$5,00013%
Filling in the Blanks Inc$5,00010%
Just Food$5,00011%
Out Now Inc$5,0001n/a
Louisiana Trans Advocates Foundation$5,0001n/a
Mississippi Safe Schools$5,0001n/a
Maine Transgender Network Inc$5,00014%
Vital Village Networks Inc$5,00012%
Clever Communities in Action$5,0001n/a
Acton Community Supper and Food Pantry Inc$5,00010%
Community Partners$5,00010%
Hispanic Federation Inc$5,00010%
Boston's Higher Ground Inc$5,00010%
Freehold Art Exchange$5,00012%
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,00010%
Eastie Farm Inc$5,00010%
Southern Arizona Senior Pride$5,00013%
Three Sisters Garden Project Inc$5,0001n/a
The Knights & Orchids Society Inc$5,00010%
Northwest Youth Services$3,50010%
Institute for Environmental Awareness Inc$2,50016%
Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights$2,50011%
Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc$2,00010%
Housing Works Inc$2,00010%
Bell Global Justice Institute$1,0001n/a
Health Resources in Action Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wild Geese Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBerklee College of Music Inc: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA Step Ahead Foundation Chattanooga Inc: $180,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetReproductive Equity Now Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLa Colaborativa Inc: $165,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetThe City School: $146,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $127,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Lgbtq Task Force: $116,240 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetEsperanza Academy Inc: $92,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBuilding Audacity: $90,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $85,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCenterlink Inc: $83,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: $72,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBagly Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAfrican Cultural Services Inc: $65,500 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetAsian American Resource Workshop Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAbortion Care Network: $65,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWellspring Cooperative Corporation: $55,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSero Project Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetNational Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA: $50,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCooperative Fund of the Northeast Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWomens Emergency Network Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetInteract Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTransgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFranklin County Community Development Corporation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGreenroots Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRace Forward: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRegional Environmental Council Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Food Forest Coalition: $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFamilies for Justice as Healing Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFunders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues: $34,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSexuality Information and Education Council of the United States Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFamily Planning Services of Lorain County: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBerkshire Grown Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBoston Area Gleaners Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWitness to Mass Incarceration Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMaven Leadership Collective: $27,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMill City Grows Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEquality Nc Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUnited We Dream Network Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBridgercare: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetApprentice Learning Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSpencer Pride: $21,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCommunity Works West Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOut in the Open Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetEqualityMaine Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 146.

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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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA51× affinity27 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Wild Geese Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wild Geese Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wild Geese Foundation Inc

How much does Wild Geese Foundation Inc give?
Wild Geese Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $808,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 84 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wild Geese Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (16%), Civil Rights (15%), Health (12%).
Who are Wild Geese Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Berklee College of Music Inc ($1.0M), A Step Ahead Foundation Chattanooga Inc ($180k), Reproductive Equity Now Inc ($175k).
Does Wild Geese Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wild Geese Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wild Geese Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Wild Geese Foundation Inc based?
Wild Geese Foundation Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 240 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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