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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $460k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orkeeswa Inc$60,000
Helen Keller International$50,000
Neighborhood Villages$50,000
Summer Search$50,000
Pursuit Transformation Company$50,000
Marion Institute$50,000
Austin Community Foundation$50,000
Manasseh's Children (dba Ujamaa Africa)$50,000
Northstar Learning Centers Inc$50,000
Watuppa Rowing Center$43,500
Generation Citizen$40,000
Charles River Watershed Association$25,000
Community Resource Center$25,000
Words As Worlds Inc$25,000
Sacred Valley Health$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC: $50k → 11%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $50k → 16%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $30k → 11%Orkeeswa Inc: $60k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 14%Northstar Learning Centers Inc: $50k → 11%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $50k → 16%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $30k → 11%Community Resource Center: $25k → 14%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC: $50k → 11%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $30k → 11%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
NE
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Arcadia Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 58%.

Arcadia Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 22 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -40% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-40%

Still filing today

95%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HE
    HALE EDUCATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +19%
  • NL
    NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +104%
  • MC
    MANASSEH'S CHILDREN DBA UJAMAA-AFRICA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue ×14 · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • CB
    COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +161%
  • NU
    NOVA UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -45%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue -40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
4
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
11
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation Citizen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Manasseh's Children Dba Ujamaa-Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORKEESWA INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesORKEESWA INCNORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSTAR LEARNING …UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $100,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SE…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE …+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesAppalachian Mountain Club: $105,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mounta…NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $90,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY OUTW…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $90,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALI…Maine Island Trail Association: $75,000 · EnvironmentMaine Island Trail…CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER WATE…SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentSIPPICAN LANDS TRU…WATUPPA ROWING CENTER INC: $130,500 · Youth DevelopmentWATUPPA ROWING…GENERATION CITIZEN INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CIT…LITERATIONS CORP: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentLITERATIONS CO…COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY BOAT…SUMMER SEARCH: $270,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEAR…NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $100,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHO…PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $100,000 · EducationPURSUIT TR…OUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationOUR SISTER…REMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $65,000 · InternationalREMOTE ARE…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · InternationalHELEN KELL…SACRED VALLEY HEALTH: $40,000 · InternationalSACRED VAL…NOVA UKRAINE: $35,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAI…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $32,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · International+2 more: $14,000 · International+2 moreTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $145,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropySHIELD RANCH FOUNDATION CHARITABLE FUNDAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSHIELD RANCH FOUNDAT…YOUTH CONNECT (BGCGB): $31,563 · OtherYOUTH CONNECT (BGCGB…LEMONADE DAY: $20,000 · OtherHALE EDUCATION INC: $150,000 · OtherHALE EDUCATION INCMANASSEH'S CHILDREN DBA UJAMAA-AFRICA: $150,000 · OtherMANASSEH'S CHILDREN …WORDS AS WORLDS INC: $25,000 · OtherPENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · Other
Human Services$468,000Environment$435,000Youth Development$348,000Employment$270,000Education$260,000International$257,000Philanthropy$195,000Other$504,063

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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 budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $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
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.

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 IncEastern Bank Foundati…Manton FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Barr FoundationThe Cht FoundationWilliam E Schrafft an…Island Foundation IncThe Carney Family Cha…Bushrod H Campbell & …Southcoast Community …Community Foundation …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arcadia Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arcadia Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Northstar Learning Centers Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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