· Private foundation
Yesod Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC | $22,500 |
| REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| GRAFTON ARTS INC | $2,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +61% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 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.
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 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 GRAFTON LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Yesod Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yesod Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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