· Private foundation
Wolfson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHURCH IN AUSTIN | $14,000 |
| BRACE FOR IMPACT | $3,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE COMM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CAMP LAUCHER | $2,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| THE DREAM PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| BETHANY HOUSE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| MOSES BROWN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| BRADLEY HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| MASS AUDOBON SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $1,500 |
| FRENCH PICKERING CREEKS CONS | $1,500 |
| JEWISH CURRENTS | $1,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| SANCTUARY AT CROWFIELD FARM | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TDTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · 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
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.
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.
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,…
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.
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…
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…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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…
Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…
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.
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…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CAMPLAUNCHER INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Verizon Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Point32health Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Alchemy Foundation · Ploughshares Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Barr Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wolfson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolfson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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