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William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 14
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureScience & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$178k43%
FY202410$127k50%
FY202314$155k64%
FY202212$159k58%
FY202113$175k85%
FY202011$140kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$889kAnimals$27kArts & Culture$8kEducation$7kScience & Tech$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 42 grantees
All grantees of William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$52,50030%
American Friends of Canadian Nature Inc$45,00031%
The Trust for Public Land$42,23730%
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc$40,00031%
Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated$30,00025%
Somerset Woods Trustees$30,000214%
Franklin Land Trust Inc$29,30022%
Manomet Inc$27,00020%
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests$26,50030%
Putney Mountain Association Incorporated$25,96523%
Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association$22,10024%
East Quabbin Land Trust Inc$20,00022%
7 Lakes Alliance Inc$15,0001n/a
Norfolk Land Trust Inc$15,00013%
Aton Forest Inc$15,00016%
Midcoast Conservancy$15,0001n/a
Great Works Regional Land Trust$15,00011%
Middlesex Land Trust$15,00015%
Essex County Greenbelt Association$15,00010%
Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc$15,00018%
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy$15,00010%
Warren Land Trust Inc$15,000110%
Unity Environmental University$14,97410%
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England$14,70010%
Berkshire Environmental Action Team Inc$12,46414%
Wildlands Trust Inc$12,00010%
Western Foothills Land Trust$10,00010%
Coastal Mountains Land Trust$10,00011%
Georges River Land Trust$10,00011%
Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc$10,00010%
Greater Worcester Land Trust$10,00012%
Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc$10,00011%
Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition$9,00013%
Maine Natural History Observatory$8,00016%
North County Land Trust Inc$7,50014%
Connecticut Audubon Society Inc$7,50010%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$6,70410%
Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc$5,00010%
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc$5,00010%
Friends of the Blue Hills Charitable Tru$4,50011%
New England Coastal Wildlife Allian$2,63014%
Laudholm Trust$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWestern Pennsylvania Conservancy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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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.

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

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.

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About William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)

How much does William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) give?
William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) reported 14 grants totaling $177,502 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (95%), Animals (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc ($53k), American Friends of Canadian Nature Inc ($45k), The Trust for Public Land ($42k).
Does William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fields Pond Foundation Inc, Davis Conservation Foundation, Bafflin Foundation.
Where is William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) based?
William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) is based in MA.

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 49 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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