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Wlg Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$178k
Granted FY2026still arriving
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Grants FY2026still arriving
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States reached
$178k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Wlg Charitable Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$613kEducation$500kScience & Tech$312kEnvironment$300kCrime & Legal$100kHealth$50kArts & Culture$50kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2026 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$177,995
Median grant
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States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$177,995
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 16%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $178k → 7%THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $513k → 22%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE: $200k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $50k → 14%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100k → 18%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $50k → 16%THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE: $100k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $50k → 18%THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $200k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA: $50k → 17%THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $100k → 16%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON: $252k → 16%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $50k → 16%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $10k → 16%WGBH EDUCATIONAL FDN: $50k → 16%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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$860k · 4 repeat orgs$652k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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4

Total granted

$860k
$452k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-4%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • TB
    THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +29%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON
    one grant, 2020 · $252k
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -45%
  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +58%
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.

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Boston Architectural College

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

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Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
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Business Executives for National Security

Bens applies industry experience and best business practices to help address our nation's pressing national security challenges.

International
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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
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Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
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Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
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Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
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Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
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Boston Medical Center-Brighton Corporation

To consistently provide excellent and accessible health care services to all in need of care, regardless of status or ability to pay. the corporation is committed to the urban population, to vulnerable populations within the community…

Health
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Boston Medical Center Health Plan Inc

The corporation is organized and operates as a nonprofit corporation exclusively for the benefit of and to support boston medical center corporation and to provide access to effective, efficient medical care among low income, underserved,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Medical Center Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $300,000 · OtherTHE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARYMUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON: $252,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTONTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYTHE BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $60,000 · OtherTHE BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCEGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $612,803 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $177,995 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOUR…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Civil RightsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 · InternationalBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalWGBH Educational Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$862,000Philanthropy$790,798Environment$300,000Civil Rights$100,000International$100,000Health$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $612,803 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $50,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wlg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wlg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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