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Plinth

· Private foundation

Co Tr Ua Edgar & K Merkle Fdn Bank Of

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$51kReligion$26kAnimals$24kHealth$17kEnvironment$6kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$237k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF$6,500
GEORGETOWN PREP SCHOOL$6,000
STONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE$2,500
PAWS FOR PEOPLE$2,500
KENT ASSOC FOR RIDING$2,500
GREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE$2,000
SHORERIVERS$1,000
PETS ON WHEELS$1,000
DELMARVA NESTING FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $3k → 10%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $3k → 10%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $3k → 10%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $3k → 10%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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$116k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$116k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+31%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • KA
    KENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +6%
  • PV
    PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • GF
    GREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLUMBUS SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TH
    THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +24%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k

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.

1
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
2
Maryland Westie Rescue Inc

Animal welfare-organization facilitates the rescue and adoption of west highland terrier dogs of pure or mixed breed lineage.

Animals
3
Animal Welfare Society of Monroe

The animal welfare society of monroe (awsom) provides shelter and medical care for companion animals so they are free from abuse, hunger, fear and lonliness, until placing them in responsible, forever homes.

Animals
4
Peace and Paws

Charitable dog and pet rescue that focuses on dogs that require significantly more medical and behavioral care than average dogs.

5
Marshall County Animal Rescue League

To provide betterment for animals in marshall county, west virginia, through the operations of an animal shelter and a low cost spay/neuter clinic.

Animals
6
Paws Along the River Humane Society

To adopt animals into responsible homes & promote importance of spaying/neutering all pets. To provide shelter & kindness to homeless & abused animals. To foster humane education & cruelty programs, hoping for a kinder environment in which…

Animals
7
Defenders of Animal Rights Inc

Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.

Animals
8
Bristow Barnyard Farm and Domestic Animal Rescue
Animals
9
The Humane Society of Kent County Inc

To prevent the unnecessary pain and suffering of domestic animals in kent county, md and to promote satisfying and responsible relationships between people and domestic companion animals.

Animals
10
The Humane Society of Harford County Inc

The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.

Animals
11
Hart for Animals Inc

Hart for animals, inc. is a non profit organization and its mission is to improve the conditon of animals in western maryland by: 1)saving the lives of adoptable animals through rescue and transport, rehabilitation, and adoption.…

Animals
12
Humane Society of Marlboro County Inc

We provide care for and find permanent placement for animals in need. our funds are used to operate a shelter where animals are properly cared for. we provide food, kennel equipment, boarding, training and medical care and transport for…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pets On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Holton Arms School. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEORGETOWN PREP SCHOOL — $33,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN PREP SCHOOLCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF — $25,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OFKENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY INC — $16,500 · OtherKENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY INCSTONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE — $12,500 · OtherSTONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE+3 more — $7,500 · Other+3 moreGREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $6,500 · AnimalsGREENMORE FA…DELMARVA NESTING FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · AnimalsDELMARVA NES…PETS ON WHEELS INC — $1,000 · AnimalsPETS ON WHEE…PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSHORERIVERS INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL — $2,500 · Education
Other$95,000Animals$13,500Human Services$10,000Environment$6,000Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY INC — $16,500 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetPET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDELMARVA NESTING FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds KENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY INC
  • Who funds PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
  • Who funds GREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC
  • Who funds SHORERIVERS INC
  • Who funds DELMARVA NESTING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL
  • Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds PETS ON WHEELS INC

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organization Co Tr Ua Edgar & K Merkle Fdn Bank Of 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Shorerivers Inc13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 13 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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