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William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$889kAnimals$27kArts & Culture$8kEducation$7kScience & Tech$3k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $169k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Scarborough Land Trust$15,000
Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust$15,000
Sudbury Valley Trustees$15,000
Kestrel Land Trust$15,000
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy$15,000
7 Lakes Alliance$15,000
Nature Trust of New Brunswick$15,000
Aton Forest$15,000
Franklin Land Trust$14,300
Trust for Public Land$12,237
Putney Mountain Association$11,965
Western Foothill Land Trust$10,000
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens$5,000
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests$4,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $23k → 8%Essex County Green Belt Association Inc: $15k → 10%East Quabbin Land Trust: $10k → 11%Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust: $15k → 11%Berkshire Environmental Action Team: $12k → 12%Franklin Land Trust: $15k → 14%Commonwealth Zoological Corporation: $15k → 16%Western Pennsylvania Conservancy: $15k → 11%Trust for Public Land: $12k → 10%American Friends of Canadian Nature: $15k → 13%Middlesex Land Trust: $15k → 7%Connecticut Audubon Society: $8k → 9%Guilford Land Conservation Trust: $10k → 12%Nature Conservancy of Rhode Island: $10k → 14%Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association: $15k → 9%Trust for Public Land: $15k → 9%Putney Mountain Association: $14k → 11%Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests: $15k → 7%Coastal Mountains Land Trust: $10k → 11%Maine Natural History Observatory: $8k → 11%7 Lakes Alliance: $15k → 12%Western Foothill Land Trust: $10k → 13%Unity College: $15k → 13%Somerset Woods Trustees: $15k → 15%Wildlands Trust Inc: $12k → 8%Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $15k → 8%East Quabbin Land Trust: $10k → 11%Westport Land Conservation Trust: $10k → 11%Franklin Land Trust: $14k → 14%American Friends of Canadian Nature: $15k → 13%Norfolk Land Trust: $15k → 9%Trust for Public Land: $15k → 9%Putney Mountain Association: $12k → 11%Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests: $8k → 7%Great Works Regional Land Trust: $15k → 9%Midcoast Conservancy: $15k → 9%Georges River Land Trust: $10k → 11%Somerset Woods Trustees: $15k → 15%Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $15k → 8%Greater Worcester Land Trust: $10k → 11%American Friends of Canadian Nature: $15k → 13%Aton Forest: $15k → 9%Francis Small Heritage Trust: $15k → 9%Sudbury Valley Trustees: $15k → 8%Warren Land Trust: $15k → 9%Sudbury Valley Trustees: $15k → 8%Sudbury Valley Trustees: $10k → 8%Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition: $9k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$566k · 15 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
28

Total granted

$566k
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+48%

Still filing today

80%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationScience & TechAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $53k · revenue +47%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    3× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +56%
  • SV
    SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +254%

Funded once

  • NS
    Nova Scotia Nature Trust
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • NL
    NORFOLK LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +48%
  • Midcoast Conservancy
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
2
Brewster Conservation Trust

Land conservation

Environment
3
Royal River Conservation Trust

The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…

Environment
4
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust

We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.

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5
Orleans Conservation Trust

The orleans conservation trust protects and restores natural lands- for people and wildlife, the health of our waters, and the character of our community. a private nonprofit organization, the trust acquires and manages land to enhance…

Environment
6
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
7
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
8
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust

The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…

Food & Nutrition
9
Aspetuck Land Trust

Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.

Environment
10
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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11
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
12
Hilltown Land Trust Inc

Hilltown land trust conserves and stewards land through strong relationships to ensure clean water, wildlife habitat, climate resilience, recreational opportunities, and healthy farmland for the benefit of all.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unity Environmental University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,523

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $52,500 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INC — $45,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INCTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $42,237 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INCGREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED — $30,000 · EnvironmentSOMERSET WOODS TRUSTEES — $30,000 · EnvironmentFRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC — $29,300 · EnvironmentMANOMET INC — $27,000 · EnvironmentSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS — $26,500 · EnvironmentPutney Mountain Association Incorporated — $25,965 · EnvironmentWINDMILL HILL PINNACLE ASSOCIATION — $22,100 · Environment+24 more — $280,964 · Environment+24 moreKestrel Land Trust — $90,000 · OtherKestrel Land TrustNature Trust of New Brunswick — $55,000 · OtherNature Trust of New BrunswickScarborough Land Trust — $30,000 · OtherScarborough Land TrustNova Scotia Nature Trust — $15,000 · OtherNova Scotia Nature TrustDartmouth Natural Resources Trust — $15,000 · OtherDartmouth Natural Resources T…WESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST — $10,000 · OtherNature Conservancy of Rhode Island — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $16,204 · Other+3 moreUnity Environmental University — $14,974 · EducationCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $14,700 · AnimalsMAINE NATURAL HISTORY OBSERVATORY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND COASTAL WILDLIFE ALLIAN — $2,630 · Science & Tech
Environment$651,566Other$241,204Education$14,974Animals$14,700Arts & Culture$8,000Science & Tech$2,630

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $42,237 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSOMERSET WOODS TRUSTEES — $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC — $29,300 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMANOMET INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS — $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPutney Mountain Association Incorporated — $25,965 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWINDMILL HILL PINNACLE ASSOCIATION — $22,100 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEAST QUABBIN LAND TRUST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORFOLK LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetATON FOREST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMIDDLESEX LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetWARREN LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetUnity Environmental University — $14,974 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $14,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC — $12,464 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWILDLANDS TRUST INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LAND TRUST COALITION — $9,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMAINE NATURAL HISTORY OBSERVATORY — $8,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $6,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BLUE HILLS CHARITABLE TRU — $4,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND COASTAL WILDLIFE ALLIAN — $2,630 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLAUDHOLM TRUST — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Fields Pond Foundatio…Davis Conservation Fo…Bafflin FoundationThe Nature ConservancyMaine Community Found…Fidelity FoundationOnion FoundationJohn Sage FoundationFiduciary Charitable …Boston Foundation IncMomentum ConservationEdward C Johnson Fund
Fields Pond Foundation IncMA43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Bafflin Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Onion Foundation · John Sage Foundation · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Boston Foundation Inc · Momentum Conservation · Edward C Johnson Fund

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 William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Norfolk Land Trust Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated — 49% of income from government
  • Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association — 47% of income from government
  • Putney Mountain Association Incorporated — 44% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
  • East Quabbin Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
  • Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)?

Find your warmest path to William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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