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.

Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl

Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl at a glance

· Private foundation

Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $65k
$10k–50k4 grants · $55k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS	$20,000
CCN HISTORIC PRESERVATION BUILDING FDN	$15,000
CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN	$10,000
NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
MANITOU ART CENTER	$7,500
FRESH ENERGY	$6,000
SAINT JOSEPH'S ARTS FOUNDATION	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL	$5,000
POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS	$5,000
ART AND NEWPORT	$5,000
PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM	$3,000
WEST END RACING CLUB	$3,000
THE CAPE COAST AND ISLANDS NPR STATION	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$913k · 42 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$913k

$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+71%

Still filing today

71%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsInternationalOther

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

THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
7× · 2019–2025 · $161k · revenue +36%
CS
CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $84k · revenue +109%
NH
Newport Hospital Foundation
4× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +65%

Funded once

Feeding Americagraduated
one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +40%
GP
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +113%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco

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The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc

The museum's mission is to celebrate maine's role in american art. to accomplish that mission the museum provides an extensive offering of collections, exhibitions, education and retail services to the general public.

Arts & Culture

Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy

Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc

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Bruce Museum Inc

The bruce cultivates discovery and wonder, engaging a broad audience through the power of art & science.

Arts & Culture

Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment

Wetlands Foundation

Environment

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture

Seacoast Science Center Inc

It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…

Arts & Culture

Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust; the most unlike its peers is Fresh Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 72 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/48

Grantees still filing

36/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$299,500Environment$222,500Arts & Culture$169,500Education$147,500Health$108,500Animals$20,000Science & Tech$13,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

10report 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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home