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Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 38
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionScience & TechAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving28$120k14%
FY202427$123k11%
FY202329$120k17%
FY202230$170k27%
FY202128$159k21%
FY202027$186k30%
FY201938$103kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$316kEnvironment$312kHealth$111kEducation$68kReligion$47kScience & Tech$24kAnimals$15kInternational$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
AZ
NM
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trustees of Reservations$160,50070%
Conway School of Landscape Design Inc$84,00072%
Newport Hospital Foundation$72,00040%
Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School$58,00070%
Fractured Atlas Inc$46,00020%
Manitou Art Center$41,50074%
Fresh Energy$39,50070%
Newport Hospital$30,00020%
Art & Newport$24,00046%
Open Gate Sangha Inc$24,0004n/a
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All grantees of Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trustees of Reservations$160,50070%
Conway School of Landscape Design Inc$84,00072%
Newport Hospital Foundation$72,00040%
Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School$58,00070%
Fractured Atlas Inc$46,00020%
Manitou Art Center$41,50074%
Fresh Energy$39,50070%
Newport Hospital$30,00020%
Art & Newport$24,00046%
Open Gate Sangha Inc$24,0004n/a
Provincetown Art Association and Museum Inc$24,00070%
Ccn Historic Building Preservation Foundation$20,00027%
Saint Josephs Arts Foundation$18,00041%
Institute of Noetic Sciences$13,00050%
Tibet Mongalom$12,5005n/a
18th Street Arts Complex$10,50060%
The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust$10,00020%
Solstice Project Inc$10,00045%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$9,00050%
American Friends of Georgia Inc$8,25050%
Wellfleet Historical Society Inc$7,00041%
Neponset Choral Society Inc$7,0005n/a
Provincetown Public Art Foundation$7,000210%
Feeding America$6,00010%
Putney School Inc$6,00020%
The Company of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum$6,00020%
Manomet Inc$5,75060%
White Bison Inc$5,50040%
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill Inc$5,00030%
Great Plains Conservation Foundation$5,0001n/a
Robert Potter League for Animals Inc$5,00010%
Truro Historical Societyinc$5,00051%
Newport Art Museum and Art Association$5,00010%
Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc$4,75051%
Patagonia Regional Times Inc$4,00024%
The Outer Cape Chorale Inc$3,00031%
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater Inc$3,0002n/a
Trails and Open Space Coalition$3,00011%
Unity Spiritual Center in the Rockies$3,0001n/a
Patagonia Youth Enrichment Center$2,00013%
Bodhimind Center$2,0001n/a
Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce$2,00010%
Pikes Peak Permaculture Inc$1,50022%
The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc$1,0001n/a
Outer Cape Health Services Inc$1,00010%
Stonington Community Rowing Inc$1,00010%
Earth Island Institute Inc$1,00010%
Georgetown University$1,00010%
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park$1,00010%
Fountain Creek Watershed Inc$1,0001n/a
Lower Cape Communications Inc$1,00010%
Elan Academy Inc dba Elan Academy Char$50010%
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $160,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetConway School of Landscape Design Inc: $84,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $72,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAllen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School: $58,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManitou Art Center: $41,500 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetFresh Energy: $39,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNewport Hospital: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArt & Newport: $24,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetProvincetown Art Association and Museum Inc: $24,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCcn Historic Building Preservation Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSaint Josephs Arts Foundation: $18,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetInstitute of Noetic Sciences: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget18th Street Arts Complex: $10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSolstice Project Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Georgia Inc: $8,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWellfleet Historical Society Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetProvincetown Public Art Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFeeding America: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPutney School Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Company of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManomet Inc: $5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Bison Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTruro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRobert Potter League for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTruro Historical Societyinc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNewport Art Museum and Art Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLloyd Center for the Environment Inc: $4,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPatagonia Regional Times Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Outer Cape Chorale Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPatagonia Youth Enrichment Center: $2,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetManitou Springs Chamber of Commerce: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPikes Peak Permaculture Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOuter Cape Health Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStonington Community Rowing Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchoodic Institute at Acadia National Park: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLower Cape Communications Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElan Academy Inc dba Elan Academy Char: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmenian Assembly of America Inc: $500 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 44.

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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.

Van Beuren Charitable Foundation IncNY19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gramercy Park Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · William Leatherbee Jr Charitable Trust · Larry and Anne Glenn Foundation 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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About Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl

How much does Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl give?
Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl reported 28 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Environment (32%), Health (11%).
Who are Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Trustees of Reservations ($161k), Conway School of Landscape Design Inc ($84k), Newport Hospital Foundation ($72k).
Does Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust, Gramercy Park Foundation Inc.
Where is Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl based?
Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl is based in PA.

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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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