· Private foundation
Wild Geese Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of WILD GEESE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $473k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW | $100,000 |
| A STEP AHEAD CHATTANOOGA | $70,000 |
| CRCH INC | $50,000 |
| LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | $40,000 |
| CITY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK | $30,000 |
| BUILDING AUDACITY | $25,000 |
| CARROT PROJECT THE | $20,000 |
| EQUALITY HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF LORAIN COUNTY | $20,000 |
| LOVERING HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| HEALTHY WALTHAM | $20,000 |
| AFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC | $18,000 |
| WELLSPRING COOPERATIVE CORP | $15,000 |
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, $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 your grants land in higher-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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
- ASA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +220%
- REREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW INC4× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- ALAGRARIAN LAND TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $350k
BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +870%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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…
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,…
Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.
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.
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…
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.
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,…
Legal advocates & defenders for the lgbtq and people with hiv communities - see sch o
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.
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…
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…
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc and 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.
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 19 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
166 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. 166 of the 240 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds SERO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING COOPERATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA ↗
- Who funds TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FUND OF THE NORTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds INTERACT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF PORTSMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: 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
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 Wild Geese Foundation Inc 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.
- 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
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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