· Private foundation
Willard C Tilson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| The Haven Project Inc | $25,000 |
| Raw Art Works | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Someone Cares New England | $20,000 |
| Greater Lawrence Community Boating | $20,000 |
| Building Bridges Through Music | $20,000 |
| Top Notch Scholars | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +69% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- GIGREENROOTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +50%
WELLSPRING HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +107%
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 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 GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Willard C Tilson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willard C Tilson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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