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Break New Ground Charitable Fund at a glance

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Break New Ground Charitable Fund

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.

$228k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$34k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Environment$187kInternational$59kEducation$50kScience & Tech$40kHealth$30kPhilanthropy$15kCrime & Legal$10kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $224k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY INC$34,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$30,000
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION$30,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$25,000
BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$10,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC$10,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC$10,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$10,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY INC$10,000
CENTER FOR ARMS CONTROL AND NON-PROLIFERATION$4,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $30k → 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC: $25k → 12%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $10k → 17%CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $10k → 14%REFOREST THE TROPICS INC: $18k → 9%AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY INC: $10k → 11%PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10k → 6%NATURE CONSERVANCY INC: $34k → 7%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $30k → 9%ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 16%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%CENTER FOR ARMS CONTROL AND NON-PROLIFERATION: $4k → 14%SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY INC: $10k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY INC: $20k → 7%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $25k → 9%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 16%SENA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
CT
MD
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of Break New Ground Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Break New Ground Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 4 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$145k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue 0%
  • ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • SI
    SENA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -60%
  • REFOREST THE TROPICS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue 0%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
Parliamentarians for Global Action

Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…

International
8
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International
11
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
12
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sena Institute of Technology Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $55,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage TrustESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATIONCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INCREFOREST THE TROPICS INCORPORATED: $18,000 · EnvironmentREFOREST THE TROPICS INCORPORATEDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $54,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVAN…SIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · OtherSIGMA XI THE SCIENTI…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVER…SENA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationSENA INSTITUTE OF T…International Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 · InternationalInternational…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FO…AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTER…Center for Arms Control and: $4,000 · InternationalCenter for Ar…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN…THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Environment$133,000Other$74,000Education$70,000International$49,000Health$40,000Philanthropy$15,000Civil Rights$10,000Crime & Legal$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 budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $54,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSIGMA XI THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFOREST THE TROPICS INCORPORATED: $18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Break New Ground Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Break New Ground Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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The camps
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