Willow Creek Charitable Foundation
Marion, MA · EIN 10-0003568. Reported 98 grants totalling $128,837 to 74 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Willow Creek Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $1,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $11,471. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Woodshole, MA | $11,471 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Symphony Orchestra | New Bedford, MA | $8,700 | 7 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wpkn Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $6,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Saviour New York | New York, NY | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Bowery Mission | New York, NY | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Parish of St John Henry Newman | Reston, VA | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Providence Country Day School | East Providence, RI | $5,700 | 4 | 1 | 2024 |
| Doctors Without Borders | Hagerstown, MD | $5,400 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Whaling Museum | New Bedford, MA | $4,500 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Schoerke Foundation | Westtown, PA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Germantown Friends School | Philadelphia, PA | $3,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barnabas International | Elkhorn, WI | $3,220 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marion Institute | Marion, MA | $2,500 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sage | New York, NY | $2,299 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | Chicago, IL | $2,280 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Marion Coa | Marion, MA | $2,200 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thumb Kids | Port Austin, MI | $2,111 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cheshire Horse and Hound Foundation | Unionville, PA | $1,771 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dwight Hall at Yale | New Haven, CT | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Sisters's School | New Bedford, MA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Plymouth Meeting Friends School | Plymouth Meeting, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $1,100 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arden Theater Company | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ashoka USA | Arlington, VA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Sister Association of Greater Boston | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Carbon Removal | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit PBS | Wixom, MI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duncaster Residents Association | Bloomfield, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of New Haven Legal Assitance Association | New Haven, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| G-Town Radio | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marrakech Inc | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Ms Society | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Philabundance | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rebuilding Philadelphia Together | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Summer Search | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Uncharted International | Evansville, IN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| William Lyon Phelps Foundation | Berkley, MI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women's Fund Southcoast | New Bedford, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Work to Ride Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yale Law School | New Haven, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marion Art Center Inc | Marion, MA | $850 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Nurse Home Care | Fairhaven, MA | $700 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arte Inc | New Haven, CT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chestnut Hill Conservancy | Philadelphia, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clean Task Force | Boston, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Partnership School | Philadelphia, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fox Chase Cancer Center | Philadelphia, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Wissahickon | Philadelphia, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nph USA | Quincy, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southcoast Community Foundation | New Bedford, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Andrew's School | Barrington, RI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Gabriels Episcopal Church | Marion, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wbur 909 | Boston, MA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brandywine Conservancy & Museum | Chadds Ford, PA | $400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chestnut Hill Garden District Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rotch- Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum | New Bedford, MA | $360 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grosse Point Library Foundation | Grosse Park, MI | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan Psychoanlytic Foundation | Farmington Hills, MI | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Buzzards Bay Musicfest Inc | Marion, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ambler Theater Inc | Ambler, PA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation | Nantucket, MA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Suffolk County Community College | Selden, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tri-County Music Association | Rochester, MA | $200 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Art Museum | New Bedford, MA | $175 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Star Kids | New Bedford, MA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tabor Academy | Marion, MA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Greater New Bedford | New Bedford, MA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elizabeth Tabor Library | Marion, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace Episcopal Church | Manchester, NH | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| League of Women Voters Southcoast | Marion, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mspca- Angell | Jamaica Plain, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sippican Choral Society | Marion, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
1 of 74 (1%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Wbur 909
Support national public radio
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 54 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $250 | $250 |
| 2022 | 2 | $750 | $375 |
| 2024 | 95 | $127,837 | $1,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 30% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Willow Creek Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 576, Marion, MA, 02738. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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