How much did CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK grant in FY2024?

Recreation & Sports$545kEnvironment$480kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$20kEducation$15kYouth Development$13kHousing & Shelter$10kReligion$10kSocial Science$8kOther$165k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

youth leadership

2021

youth leadership

2022

green schoolyards

2023

green schoolyards

2024

landconservationforestshabitatworkingadvocacyforest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k4 grants · $145k
$50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$250k+1 grant · $470k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

KABOOM$470,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$225,000
ROCHESTER ECOLOGY PARTNERS$50,000
CITY OF PROVIDENCE$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY$40,000
WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED ALLIANCE$40,000
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY$40,000
ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$25,000
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

City Wildlife Inc

Protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Education

NatureServe

NatureServe is the global leader in data, science and technology to conserve biodiversity.

Environment

Eastern National

To serve america's national parks and other public trusts and their visitors

Recreation & Sports

Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

Champions urban natural areas in nyc and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy.

Environment

Outdoor Equity Alliance

To create equitable access to nature in all communities and inspire a diverse new generation of environmental leaders.

Food & Nutrition

Allegheny County Conservation District

The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Dunwoody Nature Center Inc

Dunwoody Nature Center inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship

Environment

Tenngreen Land Conservancy

Conserving land where people and nature can thrive. tenngreen land conservancy works to create parks, establish wildlife corridors, expand existing protected public lands, & enhance public recreation opportunities.

Recreation & Sports

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

The Forest Park Conservancy

The mission of the forest park conservancy is to protect and foster the ecological health of forest park, maintain and enhance the park's extensive trails network, and inspire community appreciation and future stewardship of this iconic…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Learning for Kids and the most unlike its peers is Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,538

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

21/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$545,000Environment$480,000Other$192,500Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000Education$15,000Youth Development$13,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Recreation FoundationIL18× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Recreation Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BIG SANDBOX INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464273079 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BIG SANDBOX INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Children & Nature Network?

Find your warmest path to Children & Nature Network through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Children & Nature Network?

More from the funding graph

CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Children & Nature Network?

More from the funding graph