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Arcadia Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$666k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 15
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Arcadia Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$576k20%
FY202312$440k50%
FY202215$399k80%
FY202111$385k0%
FY202011$395k36%
FY201911$373kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$373kEmployment$370kEnvironment$345kHealth$320kYouth Development$312kEducation$230kInternational$223kRecreation & Sports$188kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
NE
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Summer Search$270,00040%
Orkeeswa Inc$165,00045%
Hale Education Inc$150,00032%
Northstar Learning Centers Inc$150,00031%
Manasseh's Children Dba Ujamaa-Africa$150,000326%
The Marion Institute Inc$145,00052%
Watuppa Rowing Center Inc$130,500314%
Appalachian Mountain Club$105,00030%
Neighborhood Villages Inc$100,00021%
United South End Settlements$100,00021%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Arcadia Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSummer Search: $270,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOrkeeswa Inc: $165,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetHale Education Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNorthstar Learning Centers Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetManasseh's Children Dba Ujamaa-Africa: $150,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetThe Marion Institute Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWatuppa Rowing Center Inc: $130,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Villages Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUnited South End Settlements: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPursuit Transformation Company Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNew York City Outward Bound Center Inc Dba NYC Outward Bound Schools: $90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBuzzards Bay Coalition: $90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $75,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRemote Area Medical: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOur Sisters School: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLiterations Corp: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCommunity Resource Center: $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHelen Keller International: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharles River Watershed Association Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSacred Valley Health: $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCommunity Boating Center Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNova Ukraine: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSippican Lands Trust Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWords as Worlds Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPenikese Island School Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRazom Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Citizens Foundation USA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Manton Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · The Cht Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Island Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc

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.

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How do I get to Arcadia Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Arcadia Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Arcadia Charitable Trust

How much does Arcadia Charitable Trust give?
Arcadia Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $666,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Arcadia Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (14%), Employment (14%), Environment (13%).
Who are Arcadia Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Summer Search ($270k), Orkeeswa Inc ($165k), Hale Education Inc ($150k).
Does Arcadia Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Arcadia Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arcadia Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Manton Foundation.
Where is Arcadia Charitable Trust based?
Arcadia Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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