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Wild Geese Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$809k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $473k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW$100,000
A STEP AHEAD CHATTANOOGA$70,000
CRCH INC$50,000
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS$40,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CITY SCHOOL$30,000
WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK$30,000
BUILDING AUDACITY$25,000
CARROT PROJECT THE$20,000
FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF LORAIN COUNTY$20,000
LOVERING HEALTH CENTER$20,000
EQUALITY HEALTH CENTER$20,000
HEALTHY WALTHAM$20,000
AFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC$18,000
ESPERANZA ACADEMY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OUT NOW INC: $5k → 17%GRIFFIN-GRACY EDUCATIONAL RETREAT & HISTORIAL CENTER: $15k → 17%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $5k → 33%EMPOWER MISSOURI: $10k → 10%REPURPOSE SAVANNAH: $10k → 16%SPENCER PRIDE: $8k → 14%ALL-OPTIONS: $15k → 18%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $4k → 12%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $10k → 22%EQUALITY MAINE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $5k → 9%SPENCER PRIDE: $6k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%OUT IN THE OPEN: $5k → 11%EQUALITY MAINE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SOMOS FAMILIA: $5k → 10%WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%SPENCER PRIDE: $5k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%OUT IN THE OPEN: $5k → 11%SPENCER PRIDE: $3k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $5k → 14%OUT IN THE OPEN: $5k → 11%SOUTHERN ARIZONA SENIOR PRIDE: $5k → 15%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $5k → 7%SOMOS FAMILIA: $5k → 10%OUT IN THE OPEN: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $5k → 7%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $20k → 16%MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 8%WITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION: $15k → 17%WITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION: $10k → 17%WITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION: $5k → 17%WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER WARREN DANIEL HAIRSTON PROJECT INC: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $15k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $5k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 118 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

118 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
101

Total granted

$5.8M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

69%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
  • AS
    A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +220%
  • RE
    REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • AL
    AGRARIAN LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $350k
  • BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +870%
  • UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -42%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
2
Queer Power Alliance

Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…

Human Services
3
The Womxn Project

Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.

Civil Rights
4
Carribean Equality Project Inc

The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.

Human Services
5
Forward Together Action

FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION (FTA) is an national reproductive justice organization that ORGANIZES COMMUNITIES who experience reproductive oppression TO BUILD POWER. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of colorAnd…

Human Services
6
Queer Works

Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.

Health
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc

Legal advocates & defenders for the lgbtq and people with hiv communities - see sch o

Civil Rights
9
Equality Federation Institute

Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
10
The Audre Lorde Project Inc

The audre lorde project, inc. alp is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people of color community organizing center, focusing on the new york city area. through mobilization, education, and…

Health
11
Freedom for All Massachusetts Inc

Freedom for all massachusetts is the bipartisan campaign to ensure fair and equal treatment for transgender people by defending the common wealth's laws against discrimination in public spaces such as restaurants, retail stores, and…

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12
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cape Split Chapel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

166 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. 166 of the 240 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
160/166
Grantees still filing
100/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $420,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAGRARIAN LAND TRUST: $350,000 · OtherAGRARIAN LAND TRUSTREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW INC: $175,000 · OtherThe City School: $146,000 · Other+118 more: $2,722,614 · Other+118 moreBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $1,000,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF …ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $92,500 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY I…+7 more: $86,000 · Education+7 moreLA COLABORATIVA INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesWITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSPENCER PRIDE: $21,000 · Human ServicesOUT IN THE OPEN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEqualityMaine Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesWaves Ahead Corp: $20,000 · Human ServicesBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Human Services+11 more: $110,000 · Human ServicesA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $180,000 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORK: $65,000 · HealthSERO PROJECT INC: $55,000 · HealthHealthy Waltham Inc: $30,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF LORAIN COUNTY: $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $20,000 · HealthStep Up For Mental Health: $20,000 · HealthRESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthCENTERLINK INC: $83,000 · Civil RightsNational Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA: $50,000 · Civil RightsINTERACT INC: $45,000 · Civil RightsFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES: $34,100 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · Civil RightsElevated Access Inc: $15,000 · Civil RightsBOSTON CASA INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsOUT METROWEST INC: $15,000 · Civil Rights+9 more: $65,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $127,500 · Community ImprovementWELLSPRING COOPERATIVE CORPORATION: $55,000 · Community ImprovementFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $40,000 · Community ImprovementRACE FORWARD: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $25,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementThe Food Project Inc: $85,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC: $72,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE GROWN INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY GROWS INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBACKYARD GROWERS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionOsamequin Farm Inc: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL FOODSHED: $12,500 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,813,614Education$1,178,500Human Services$471,000Health$435,000Civil Rights$367,100Community Improvement$357,500Food & Nutrition$309,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds The City School ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING AUDACITY ↗
  • Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTERLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING COOPERATIVE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SERO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FUND OF THE NORTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERACT INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF PORTSMOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗

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 G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyAgnes M Lindsay TrustProteus Fund IncTides FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Point32health Foundat…The Astraea Foundatio…Wellspring Philanthro…
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 →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Point32health Foundation Inc · The Astraea Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wild Geese Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wild Geese Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Coastal Foodshed: 66% of income from government
  • Root Social Justice Center Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Berkshire Grown Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Out in the Open Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Nipmuc Indian Development Corp: 24% of income from government
  • Building Audacity: 24% of income from government
  • Franklin County Community Development Corporation: 22% of income from government
  • Boston Casa Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Osamequin Farm Inc: 18% of income from government
  • National Black Justice Coalition Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Eastie Farm Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Centerlink Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Out Metrowest Inc: 9% of income from government
  • African Cultural Services Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Roots Rising Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Lasell University: 4% of income from government
  • Maven Leadership Collective: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell: 3% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston's Higher Ground Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Out Now Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Green Beverly 107Q Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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