Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WHEELOCK COLLEGE
WHEELOCK COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,405,174 to it, the largest being THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC ($1,119,279). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocal
- Cochran Gifford a Tr Uindportfolio match
- Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 20 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $805k → $261k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WHEELOCK COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WHEELOCK COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WHEELOCK COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 34% · 2019 94% · 2020 77% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
10% of WHEELOCK COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
WHEELOCK COLLEGE draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $272k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalMA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 186 organizations near you
- Cochran Gifford a Tr Uindportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob Sullivan Memorial Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davis Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sons of Italy 216 Charitable & Educational Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace E B Prince Charitable Trusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward Little High School Alumni as Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cone Automatic Machine Co Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Everett & Marion Mitchell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ricker College Scholarship & Endowment Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WHEELOCK COLLEGE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Emeriti Retiree Health Plan for Wheelock College · exempt
- Wheelock College Alumni Association · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (2) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHEELOCK COLLEGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WHEELOCK COLLEGE?
- WHEELOCK COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,405,174 to it, the largest being THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC ($1,119,279). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHEELOCK COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,405,174 in grants to WHEELOCK COLLEGE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHEELOCK COLLEGE?
- THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,119,279 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHEELOCK COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 23funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing