· Private foundation
Willard C Tilson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Waring School | $50,000 |
| Elevated Thought | $40,000 |
| The Cornerstone Creative | $25,000 |
| Raw Art Works | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| The Haven Project Inc | $25,000 |
| Someone Cares New England | $20,000 |
| Building Bridges Through Music | $20,000 |
| Greater Lawrence Community Boating | $20,000 |
| Top Notch Scholars | $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 (FY18–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- WSWARING SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $495k · revenue +23%
ELEVATED THOUGHT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +486%
The Haven Project Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
WELLSPRING HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +107%- GIGREENROOTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +50%
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.
Apprentice learning provides real-world work experiences for middle school students. we leverage career exploration to teach skills and to nuture dreams.
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
Through media arts education, wide angle youth media collaborates with and amplifies the voices of baltimore youth to engage audiences across social divides. our programs inspire creativity and instill confidence in young people,…
Build long term, life changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them for a plan for the future to thrive and contribute to their community.
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
Training young adults from low income communities for high growth careers as software engineers, and connecting them with jobs.
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
To provide a supportive educational environment for adult learners from the greater lynn area, provide opportunities for non-native english speakers to learn english and improve their english language arts and math skills, and to…
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.
Juxtaposition arts (jxta) is a visual art and design organization, rooted in north minneapolis for over 30 years. we expand access to creative education and career pathways by engaging emerging artisits in rigorous traning, mentorship and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways for Childreninc and the most unlike its peers is The Cornerstone Creative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 WARING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATED THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds The Cornerstone Creative Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN BRIDGES INC ↗
- Who funds Si Se Puede Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOMEBODY CARES NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
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: Amelia Peabody Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Lenny Zakim Fund · Brace Cove Foundation Inc · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · Massachusetts Charitable Society
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 Willard C Tilson 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Building Bridges Through Music Inc — 19% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Somebody Cares New England Inc — 4% of income from government
- Urban Bridges Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cape Ann Art Haven Inc — 1% 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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