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Association Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$342kArts & Culture$217kYouth Development$63kEnvironment$60kPublic Benefit$50kHousing & Shelter$40kSocial Science$40kEducation$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION$20,000
THE AVENUE CONCEPT$20,000
STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS$10,000
THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK$10,000
THE LORDS PLACE$5,000
THE CONFERENCE BOARD$5,000
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$5,000
POINTS NORTH INSTITUTE$2,500
HURU INTERNATIONAL$2,000
COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE$2,000
FRIENDS OF ROCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,500
WESTHAMPTON BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
BATH AND TENNIS CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $750 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $750 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $750 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $750 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $750 → 14%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $3k → 11%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $3k → 11%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $2k → 11%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $2k → 11%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $2k → 11%COASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE: $1k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$775k · 25 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
12

Total granted

$775k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
0%

Still filing today

84%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +147%
  • TA
    THE AVENUE CONCEPT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +57%
  • SP
    STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • RN
    RICHARD NIXON LIBRARY AND BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • NE
    NYLCV EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
7
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
11
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
12
Save the Bay Inc

Save the bay protects, restores, and improves the ecological health of the narragansett bay region, including its watershed and adjacent coastal waters, through an ecosystem-based approach to environmental action; defends the right of the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York League of Conservation Voters and the most unlike its peers is Coastal Family Hospice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Community Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Land Conservation Organizat…United Way FederationsHospice Care ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesClassical Music EnsemblesPublic Library SupportIndependent K-8 SchoolsHomeless Services & ShelterGovernment Accountability R…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $300,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $30,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New Englan…THE AVENUE CONCEPT INC — $107,250 · Arts & CultureTHE AVENUE CONCEPT IN…BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS …Points North Institute — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePoints North Institut…THE GREATER WESTHAMPTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $9,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreNEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS — $32,500 · OtherNEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVA…RICHARD NIXON LIBRARY AND BIRTHPLACE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherRICHARD NIXON LIBRARY AND B…Hudson Institute Inc — $30,000 · OtherHudson Institute IncNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK — $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORKNYLCV EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherBATH AND TENNIS CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION — $9,000 · OtherThe Conference Board Inc — $15,000 · OtherThe Conference Board IncTHE ECONOMIC CLUB OF NEW YORK — $10,000 · Other+10 more — $37,500 · Other+10 moreSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $60,000 · EducationSTUDENTSP…THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 · EducationTHE CHAPI…CAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND — $5,000 · EducationCAMDEN PU…+2 more — $3,000 · EducationCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitTHE LORD'S PLACE INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCOASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE — $12,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthy — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,750 · Human Services
Health$330,000Arts & Culture$167,250Other$214,000Education$78,000Public Benefit$50,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Human Services$25,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AVENUE CONCEPT INC — $107,250 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS — $32,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPoints North Institute — $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Conference Board Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL FAMILY HOSPICE — $12,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeworthy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREATER WESTHAMPTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $6,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN DITCHLEY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND — $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFinding Our Voices — $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CLERMONT INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStewardship Education Alliance — $3,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Foundation IncME14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · Messler Family Foundation · Tr Ua the Camden Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Association Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • The Lord's Place Inc12% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Association Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Association Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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