· Private foundation
Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of WILLOW CREEK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION U/A/D 01/11/2002’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k93 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WPKN INC | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $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 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC3× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +40%- TATABOR ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +92%
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- OLOur Lady of the Sacred Heart NYone grant, 2023 · $18k
GREENPEACE FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +5%- CLCheshire Land Preservation Fundone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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.
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.
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,…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
142 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. 142 of the 230 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 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.
- 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
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.