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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$140,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Putney School$140,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%David 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%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
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

VT
IL
MI
NY
OR
WY
CA
CO
VA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

5
6

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Land Trust; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Cinco funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cinco. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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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