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Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 at a glance

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Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$152kEducation$149kReligion$84kEnvironment$78kHealth$75kAnimals$25kPhilanthropy$17kScience & Tech$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k93 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC$11,471
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$10,000
THE PARISH OF ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN$5,800
THE BOWERY MISSION$5,800
OUR SAVIOUR NEW YORK$5,800
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
WPKN INC$5,000
SCHOERKE FOUNDATION$4,000
GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$3,700
BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL$3,220
PROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$3,000
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM$2,500
SAGE$2,299
ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES$2,280
Individual grant recipient$2,111
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Home for Little Wanderers: $100 → 16%FRIENDS OF MARION COA: $2k → 8%FRIENDS OF MARION COA: $100 → 8%FRIENDS OF MARION COA: $100 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$551k · 117 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

117 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
74

Total granted

$551k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+23%

Still filing today

63%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +40%
  • CH
    Christian Herald Association Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +2%
  • TA
    TABOR ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • OL
    Our Lady of the Sacred Heart NY
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • GREENPEACE FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • CL
    Cheshire Land Preservation Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
5
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Lyon Phelps Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

142 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. 142 of the 230 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/142
Grantees still filing
105/142
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Bedford Symphony Orchestra: $43,475 · OtherNew Bedford Symphony OrchestraParish of St John Henry Newman: $23,743 · OtherParish of St John Henry NewmanOur Lady of the Sacred Heart NY: $17,943 · OtherPLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOL: $12,500 · Other+123 more: $254,869 · Other+123 moreTABOR ACADEMY: $23,150 · EducationTABOR ACADEMYOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $21,850 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCHOO…PROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $21,200 · EducationPROVIDENCE COUNTR…FRIENDS ACADEMY INC: $7,100 · EducationFRIENDS ACADEMY I…DWIGHT HALL AT YALE: $7,042 · EducationDWIGHT HALL AT YA…ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL: $6,800 · EducationABINGTON FRIENDS …CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $3,500 · Education+8 more: $11,810 · Education+8 moreOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $16,325 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmou…ZEITERION THEATRE INC: $7,550 · Arts & CultureZEITERION T…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED A…WPKN Incorporated: $7,000 · Arts & CultureWPKN Incorp…ROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC: $5,710 · Arts & CultureROTCH-JONES…IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureAMBLER THEATER INC: $3,400 · Arts & CultureARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $16,750 · Arts & Culture+17 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $26,500 · HealthPLANNED P…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $16,929 · HealthPLANNED P…American Diabetes Association: $3,500 · HealthAmerican …SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $3,350 · HealthSOUTHCOAS…Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic: $2,000 · Health+4 more: $2,925 · HealthRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $3,850 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $3,000 · EnvironmentChestnut Hill Garden District Fund: $2,200 · EnvironmentESSEX LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentFriends of SCRAP Inc: $2,000 · Environment+10 more: $5,625 · EnvironmentChristian Herald Association Inc: $23,743 · ReligionGLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH: $4,500 · ReligionBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $3,220 · ReligionTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $10,450 · PhilanthropySOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 · PhilanthropyPANDEMONIUM RAINFOREST PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$352,530Education$102,452Arts & Culture$70,735Health$55,204Environment$47,175Religion$31,463Philanthropy$15,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $23,743 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $23,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $21,850 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $21,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $16,929 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $16,325 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOL: $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $11,471 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $10,450 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSippican Historical Society: $9,575 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZEITERION THEATRE INC: $7,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY INC: $7,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT HALL AT YALE: $7,042 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWPKN Incorporated: $7,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL: $6,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN CATS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC: $5,710 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $4,775 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH: $4,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetProject Open Hand: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $3,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMBLER THEATER INC: $3,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $3,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $3,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUNCASTER RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,671 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: $2,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $2,316 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC: $2,300 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $2,299 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $2,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH MEETING FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Sippican Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ZEITERION THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
  • Who funds WPKN Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ↗

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.

The Ludes Family Foun…Southcoast Community …Bascom Charitable Fou…The Carney Family Cha…The Quarterdeck Found…Alvord Family Foundat…Bristol County Saving…The Croll FoundationEnable Hope FoundationConnecticut Humanitie…The Maurice and Anne …First Citizens Charit…
The Ludes Family FoundationMA42.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ludes Family Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bascom Charitable Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · The Quarterdeck Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Croll Foundation · Enable Hope Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Maurice and Anne Makepeace Family Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Real Art Ways Inc: 38% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Friends of Jack Foundation Inc: 36% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Arte Inc: 20% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Marrakech Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
  • Zeiterion Theatre Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Forgotten Cats Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wpkn Incorporated: 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Marion Art Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 230 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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