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Bafflin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Environment$6.4MAnimals$529kArts & Culture$520kRecreation & Sports$60kHuman Services$55kPublic Benefit$45kFood & Nutrition$30kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $334k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $770k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN RHODE ISLAND$100,000
WYNDHAM LAND TRUST$100,000
MASS AUDUBON$75,000
FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE$75,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$75,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN MASSACHUSETTS$75,000
WESTERLY LAND TRUST$70,000
SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES$50,000
MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST$50,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$50,000
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTERS$50,000
THE ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY$30,000
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE$25,000
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT$25,000
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS$25,000
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 (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CATAMOUNT OUTDOOR FAMILY CENTER: $25k → 10%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
NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 47 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
65

Total granted

$5.2M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+20%

Still filing today

87%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • WL
    WYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $575k · revenue +72% · 38% of their budget
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    4× · 2018–2024 · $265k · revenue +119%
  • SOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST
    3× · 2018–2023 · $250k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • ML
    MIDDLESEX LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +97% · 90% of their budget
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +36%

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
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
2
Brewster Conservation Trust

Land conservation

Environment
3
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
4
Aspetuck Land Trust

Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.

Environment
5
Redding Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…

Environment
6
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust

We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.

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7
New Marlborough Land Trust Inc

Land preservation

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8
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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9
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
10
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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11
Bourne Conservation Trust

To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment

Environment
12
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Margaret & Donald Matheson School Portland Trust Co Llc. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and Shelter
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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr16%29%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%0/93
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,472

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

92 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 123 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)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
65/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC — $575,000 · EnvironmentWYNDHAM LAND TRUST INCTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $265,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDSOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST — $250,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUSTAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $225,000 · EnvironmentSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $157,500 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION — $145,000 · Environment+47 more — $2,697,750 · Environment+47 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN RI — $425,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN RITHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $385,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMASS AUDUBON — $250,000 · OtherMASS AUDUBONTHE WESTERLY LAND TRUST — $203,000 · OtherTHE WESTERLY LAND TRUSTMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON — $150,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN RHODE ISLAND — $100,000 · Other+36 more — $1,091,474 · Other+36 moreTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE — $100,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $90,000 · AnimalsDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $57,500 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC — $37,500 · AnimalsLOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY — $29,300 · AnimalsMIDCOAST HUMANE — $25,000 · AnimalsFERALCARE INC — $20,000 · Animals+2 more — $20,000 · AnimalsMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $75,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER — $32,000 · Arts & CultureMOCA CT INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK — $25,000 · Arts & CultureI-PARK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $12,500 · Arts & CultureSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyStrong Family Farm Inc — $30,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $25,000 · EducationMARGARET & DONALD MATHESON SCHOOL PORTLAND TRUST CO LLC — $21,347 · EducationJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesCATAMOUNT OUTDOOR FAMILY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human Services
Environment$4,315,250Other$2,604,474Animals$379,300Arts & Culture$294,500Philanthropy$125,000Education$76,347Human Services$60,000

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 budgetWYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC — $575,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $385,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $265,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST — $250,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $225,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE WESTERLY LAND TRUST — $203,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $157,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION — $145,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST — $140,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetForest Society of Maine — $135,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST — $115,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $105,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHERN CONNECTICUT LAND TRUST INC — $100,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMIDDLESEX LAND TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE — $100,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST — $100,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $95,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC — $90,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSalem Land Trust Inc — $87,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetFRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC — $85,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST — $80,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEAST HADDAM LAND TRUST INC — $70,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetTHE OPACUM LAND TRUST INC — $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetGROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $57,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $54,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBurrillville Land Trust — $53,250 over 3y, 90% of budgetJoshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust — $50,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST QUABBIN LAND TRUST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST — $47,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budget7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKESTREL LAND TRUST INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER — $32,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBoxborough Conservation Trust Inc — $31,500 over 2y, 14% 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.

Fields Pond Foundatio…Davis Conservation Fo…The Nature ConservancyFidelity FoundationWilliam P Wharton Tru…Ibm International Fou…Maine Community Found…Boston Foundation IncJohn Sage FoundationThe Rhode Island Comm…Onion FoundationThe Champlin Foundati…
Fields Pond Foundation IncMA67.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Fidelity Foundation · William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) · Ibm International Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · John Sage Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Onion Foundation · The Champlin Foundation

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 Bafflin 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Groton Open Space Association Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association — 47% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
  • I-Park Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
  • East Quabbin Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
  • Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Wyndham Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Bafflin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bafflin 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 123 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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