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Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2024
31
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,250
Organizations funded a year
24 to 31
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$934k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEmploymentArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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
FY2024still arriving39$28k23%
FY202331$25k16%
FY202224$21k17%
FY202125$25k32%
FY202026$46kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$78kPhilanthropy$62kYouth Development$13kHealth$11kArts & Culture$7kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$4kEmployment$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlma del Mar Foundation Inc: $43,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTrustees of Thayer Academy Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthcoast Health System Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthstar Learning Centers Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHackley School: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArt Museum New Bedford Inc: $2,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOur Sisters School: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nemasket Group Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSkidmore College: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuhlenberg College: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBancroft School: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Alliance Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marion Institute Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTenacity Inc: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMattapoisett Library Trust Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNew Bedford Light: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMattapoisett Land Trust Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestchester Jewish Community Services Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Fund Southcoast Inc: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Winchendon School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThoroughbred Placement Resources Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLown Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Tennis Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilton Academy: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMattapoisett Historical Society: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSchool the World Inc: $250 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 28.

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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.

Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Manfredi Family Foundation · Genie & Donald Rice Char Tr · The Croll Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002

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 Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold

How much does Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold give?
Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold reported 40 grants totaling $30,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (33%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alma del Mar Foundation Inc ($44k), Trustees of Thayer Academy Inc ($11k), Wheaton College ($8k).
Does Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, The Carney Family Charitable Foundation.
Where is Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold based?
Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold is based in MA.

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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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