· Private foundation
Yesod Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC | $22,500 |
| GRAFTON ARTS INC | $2,000 |
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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 +61% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +70%
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +61%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- WHWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- GPGRAFTON PUBLIC LIBRARY CAPCAMPAIGNone grant, 2021 · $3k
- GLGRAFTON LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -21%
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 greater worcester land trust promotes the protection, stewardship and appreciation of open space to enhance the quality of life and functioning of natural systems in worcester and the region.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
To preserve the rural new england character of williamstown, ma and surrounding areas for future generations; enable working landscapes including farms and forests; promote land stewardship.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To aid, encourage, advise, and correlate activities dedicated to the promotion of the arts in worcester county, as may be feasible; to integrate such activities into the total life of the community served by the council.
Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
Land conservation
Land conservation, maintenance of land held in conservation, provide public access to conservation lands, conservation education
West Windsor Arts cultivates the artist within us all, while inspiring a creative community that is engaged, inclusive and equitable.
To foster the sustainable use of our natural and historic resources for the benefit of all generations through the conservation and stewardship of the farmlands, woodlands, and water in our region of massachusetts.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Willard House & Clock Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Grafton Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Apple Tree Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Brigham Hill Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Wyman Gordon · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Yesod 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.
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Grafton Arts Inc — 9% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% 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.