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Women Arts and Acres Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Women Arts and Acres Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Public Benefit$1.0MPhilanthropy$800kArts & Culture$650kEnvironment$560k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $510k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$135,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION$1,000,000
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE$150,000
BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY$135,000
FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA$125,000
SARABANDE BOOKS$100,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Graywolf Press: $50k → 11%Irish Repertory Theater: $100k → 17%Cave Canem: $50k → 20%Coastal Community Foundation: $800k → 10%Coastal Community Foundation of Cha: $200k → 12%Mainspring for Land Conservation: $150k → 12%FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $125k → 13%BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $135k → 21%SARABANDE BOOKS: $100k → 15%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE: $150k → 17%The Poetry Project: $150k → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION: $1.0M → 17%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 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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Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
2
Copper Canyon Press

Copper canyon press educates the public in literary arts by publishing, translating and presenting poetry through books, audiotapes and live presentations. copper canyon press has published more than 500 titles including works by nobel…

Arts & Culture
3
Lawyers for the Creative Arts

Provision of pro bono legal and consulting services to qualifying individuals/companies in the creative arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
A Public Space Literary Projects Inc

The organization is an independent publisher of a public space books and a literary and arts magazine that supports overlooked and unclassifiable work from beyond established confines. the organizations programs also include writing and…

Arts & Culture
7
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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8
Center for Natural Lands Management

The mission of the center for natural lands management is (a) to conserve native species, their habitat and functioning ecosystems in perpetuity, (b) to own and/or manage lands in an ecologically beneficial manner consistent with local,…

Environment
9
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
10
Catamaran Literary Reader

Publish a quarterly literary journal, offer educational programs to the public related to the journal, and run a poetry competition, resulting in the publishing of a book of poetry by a West Coast poet.

Arts & Culture
11
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sarabande Books Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION …COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $800,000 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION O…Coastal Community Foundation of Cha: $200,000 · OtherCoastal Community Foun…THE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $150,000 · OtherTHE POETRY PROJECT LTDMainspring for Land Conservation: $150,000 · OtherMainspring for Land Co…THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $100,000 · OtherTHE IRISH REPERTORY TH…OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INST…BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $135,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE CONS…FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentFOOTHILLS CONSE…SARABANDE BOOKS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGRAYWOLF PRESS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Education
Community Improvement$1,000,000Philanthropy$800,000Other$600,000Environment$410,000Arts & Culture$150,000Education$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $800,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $150,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSARABANDE BOOKS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Women Arts and Acres Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women Arts and Acres Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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