How much does Bafflin Foundation give?

Bafflin Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,111,847 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Bafflin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (82%), Animals (7%), Arts & Culture (7%).

Who are Bafflin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wyndham Land Trust Inc ($575k), The Trust for Public Land ($265k), South Kingstown Land Trust ($250k).

Does Bafflin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bafflin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bafflin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fields Pond Foundation Inc, Davis Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.

Where is Bafflin Foundation based?

Bafflin Foundation is based in RI.

Foundation Dossiers

Rhode Island · Private foundation

Bafflin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 28
Grants FY2024: 27
Organizations funded FY2023: 48%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 22 to 29; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $14M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Bafflin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $414k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	27	$1.1M	30%
FY2023	27	$1.1M	48%
FY2022	22	$1.1M	32%
FY2021	26	$840k	54%
FY2020	29	$1.0M	55%
FY2019	29	$924k	66%
FY2018	25	$633k	68%
FY2017	26	$643k	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wyndham Land Trust Inc	$575,000	4	38%
The Trust for Public Land	$265,000	4	0%
South Kingstown Land Trust	$250,000	3	12%
Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc	$225,000	4	13%
The Westerly Land Trust	$203,000	5	5%
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc	$157,500	4	3%
Essex County Greenbelt Association	$145,000	4	1%
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust	$140,000	3	3%
Forest Society of Maine	$135,000	2	3%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust	$115,000	3	3%

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All grantees of Bafflin Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wyndham Land Trust Inc	$575,000	4	38%
The Trust for Public Land	$265,000	4	0%
South Kingstown Land Trust	$250,000	3	12%
Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc	$225,000	4	13%
The Westerly Land Trust	$203,000	5	5%
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc	$157,500	4	3%
Essex County Greenbelt Association	$145,000	4	1%
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust	$140,000	3	3%
Forest Society of Maine	$135,000	2	3%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust	$115,000	3	3%
Buzzards Bay Coalition	$105,000	3	1%
The Center for Wildlife	$100,000	2	5%
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire	$100,000	2	1%
Harwich Conservation Trust	$100,000	3	2%
The Trustees of Reservations	$100,000	1	0%
Northern Connecticut Land Trust Inc	$100,000	4	4%
Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc	$100,000	2	2%
Middlesex Land Trust	$100,000	1	90%
North County Land Trust Inc	$95,000	3	7%
Barnstable Land Trust Inc	$90,000	4	2%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation	$90,000	3	1%
New England Wildlife Center Inc	$90,000	3	1%
Salem Land Trust Inc	$87,000	2	35%
Franklin Land Trust Inc	$85,000	2	5%
Aquidneck Island Land Trust	$80,000	5	1%
Museum of Fine Arts	$75,000	1	0%
Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc	$75,000	2	1%
East Haddam Land Trust Inc	$70,000	2	10%
The Opacum Land Trust Inc	$60,000	2	8%
Groton Open Space Association Inc	$60,000	2	20%
Downeast Salmon Federation	$57,500	3	2%
Appalachian Mountain Club	$54,000	4	0%
Burrillville Land Trust	$53,250	3	90%
East Lyme Land Trust Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Joshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Georges River Land Trust	$50,000	3	2%
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests	$50,000	2	0%
East Quabbin Land Trust Inc	$50,000	1	7%
Orleans Conservation Trust	$50,000	1	2%
Greater Lovell Land Trust Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Royal River Conservation Trust	$47,000	3	4%
Connecticut Zoological Societyinc	$37,500	3	1%
7 Lakes Alliance Inc	$35,000	1	3%
Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Kestrel Land Trust Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Jamestown Arts Center	$32,000	3	2%
Boxborough Conservation Trust Inc	$31,500	2	14%
Andover Village Improvement Society	$30,000	1	11%
Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc	$30,000	2	3%
Stow Conservation Trust Inc	$30,000	1	37%
Lowell Humane Society	$29,300	2	2%
Norwalk Land Trust Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Midcoast Humane	$25,000	1	1%
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center	$25,000	1	2%
Rhode Island School of Design	$25,000	1	0%
Greater Worcester Land Trust	$25,000	1	3%
Moca Ct Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Storm King Art Center	$25,000	1	0%
Cape Cod Modern House Trust	$25,000	1	3%
Catamount Outdoor Family Center Inc	$25,000	1	9%
Decordova and Dana Museum & Park	$25,000	1	1%
I-Park Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	5%
The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Northern Rivers Land Trust	$25,000	1	n/a
Southbury Land Trust Inc	$25,000	1	14%
Margaret & Donald Matheson School Portland Trust Co LLC	$21,347	1	24%
Manchester Land Conservation Trust Inc	$20,000	1	3%
South County Art Association	$20,000	1	4%
Ripley Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Feralcare Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc	$20,000	1	7%
Save the Bay Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Sippican Lands Trust Inc	$20,000	1	14%
Coastal Mountains Land Trust	$15,000	1	0%
Providence Preservation Society	$15,000	1	1%
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association	$15,000	2	3%
Ironwood Community Partners Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Elizabeth Park Conservancy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Foster Parrots Ltd	$10,000	1	2%
Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Wild Bird Fund Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Eastham Conservation Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum	$7,500	1	1%
Westford Community Access Television Incorporated	$5,000	1	1%
Third Sector New England Inc	$2,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Bafflin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 85.

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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.

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

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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About Bafflin Foundation

How much does Bafflin Foundation give?: Bafflin Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,111,847 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bafflin Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (82%), Animals (7%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Bafflin Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wyndham Land Trust Inc ($575k), The Trust for Public Land ($265k), South Kingstown Land Trust ($250k).
Does Bafflin Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bafflin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bafflin Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fields Pond Foundation Inc, Davis Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.
Where is Bafflin Foundation based?: Bafflin Foundation is based in RI.