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Cinco

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$357kAnimals$130kPublic Benefit$100kEnvironment$82kInternational$67k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$140,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Putney School$140,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: $10k → 10%Wildlife Conservation Society: $10k → 28%Common Cause Education Fund: $100k → 14%Paani Project: $32k → 14%Southern Oregon Land Conservancy: $32k → 13%LOCALLY HAITI: $32k → 12%CONTEXTOS: $32k → 14%National Wildlife Federation: $50k → 6%Jackson Hole Land Trust: $50k → 5%Population Media Center: $100k → 10%The Putney School: $140k → 11%David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: $10k → 10%Wildlife Conservation Society: $10k → 28%Locally Haiti: $3k → 12%Population Media Center: $85k → 10%David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: $10k → 10%Wildlife Conservation Society: $10k → 28%SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $10k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $10k → 28%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$300k · 5 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$300k
$296k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+39%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalEducationPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PM
    POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $185k · revenue +71%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +57%
  • CH
    COLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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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
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
4
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
5
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
8
Rainforest Trust

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

International
9
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
10
Wild Landscapes Inc

Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…

Animals
11
Northern Jaguar Project

The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.

Animals
12
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $185,000 · EducationPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INCPUTNEY SCHOOL INC — $140,000 · OtherPUTNEY SCHOOL INCSheldrick Wildlife Trust — $20,000 · OtherSheldrick Wildlife TrustJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND…SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $32,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN OREGON L…PAANI — $32,000 · EnvironmentPAANINATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $50,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIF…Wildlife Conservation Society — $40,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conserv…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $20,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDR…COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE ED…COLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC — $35,000 · InternationalCOLORADO H…CONTEXTOS NFP — $32,000 · InternationalCONTEXTOS …
Education$185,000Other$160,000Environment$114,000Animals$110,000Public Benefit$100,000International$67,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $185,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC — $140,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HAITI PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $32,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONTEXTOS NFP — $32,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPAANI — $32,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Cinco 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cinco?

    Find your warmest path to Cinco through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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