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Blue Trident Foundation Inc at a glance

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Blue Trident Foundation Inc

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.

$285k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.3MReligion$148kHousing & Shelter$129kFood & Nutrition$125kHuman Services$120kScience & Tech$25kArts & Culture$13kEnvironment$10k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$29,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$850k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$100,000
OUR SAVIOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$60,000
OUR SAVIOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$41,206
IRC HABITAT SN HUMANITY$29,250
ST JOHN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$25,000
HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER$20,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK: $25k → 7%WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 6 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$1.6M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-19%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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
Science & TechArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M
  • OS
    OUR SAVIOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $111k
  • UV
    UPPER VALLEY HAVEN
    2× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • MF
    MILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • TI
    THE INTERNATIONAL SEAKEEPERS SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -59%
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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
3
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
4
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…

Science & Tech
8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Global Fishing Watch Inc

Global fishing watch advances ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. by creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we enable scientific research and drive a transformation…

Environment
12
Spoonfuls

Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is The International Seakeepers Society Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,265,076 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALOUR SAVIOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $111,206 · OtherOUR SAVIOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $100,000 · OtherIndian River County Habitat for Humanity IncUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $75,000 · Other+5 more: $146,250 · Other+5 moreNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureVERMONT FOODBANK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE INTERNATIONAL SEAKEEPERS SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Science & Tech+1 more: $55 · Science & TechBENEATH THE WAVES INC: $10,000 · Animals
Other$1,697,532Arts & Culture$52,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Human Services$50,000Science & Tech$25,055Animals$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SEAKEEPERS SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBENEATH THE WAVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blue Trident Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Trident Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Emerson Umbrella Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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
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.

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 17 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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