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Wolfson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHURCH IN AUSTIN | $11,667 |
| THE DREAM PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| KUNDALINI YOGA FOR YOUTH | $2,000 |
| MOSES BROWN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $2,000 |
| BRACE FOR IMPACT | $2,000 |
| FRENCH PICKERING CREEKS CONS | $2,000 |
| JEWISH CURRENTS | $1,900 |
| MASS AUDOBON SOCIETY | $1,900 |
| SAMANTHA'S PURSE | $1,667 |
| CAMP LAUCHER | $1,500 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $1,300 |
| SANCTUARY AT CROWFIELD FARM | $1,000 |
| BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION | $1,000 |
| REACH INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +90% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TDTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +303%
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +113%- TLTHE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC6× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CACENTER AT WESTWOODS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -36%
- CTCOMMITEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTSone grant, 2022 · $4k
- ACAM CARESone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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,…
We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
To harness the power of food innovation and markets to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals by supporting efforts to make alternative proteins accessible, affordable, and delicious.
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Area Gleaners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reach International Corporation. 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 31 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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
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 Brace for Impact 46 Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTER AT WESTWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Reach International Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION ↗
- Who funds CAMPLAUNCHER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds POISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
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.
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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 Wolfson Family Foundation Inc 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.
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