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Cold Brook Fund at a glance

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Cold Brook Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$82kHealth$58kHuman Services$38kRecreation & Sports$15kCivil Rights$9kInternational$9kFood & Nutrition$6kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$465k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDINA ABC FOUNDATION$22,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $3k → 13%EXPRESSIVE PATH: $2k → 7%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%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

ME
MN
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
RI
CA
MD
DC
GA
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 14 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$187k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
-24%

Still filing today

64%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TE
    THE EDINA ABC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +56%
  • THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +185%
  • KA
    KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLERY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -65%
  • CC
    CAPE COD HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chaconia Support Group Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EDINA ABC FOUNDATION: $30,500 · OtherTHE EDINA ABC FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODCAPE COD HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · OtherCAPE COD HOSPITAL HEALTHCAREIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLERY CENTER: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCAPE COD HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherALL SOULS CHURCH UNITARIAN: $4,500 · OtherTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $22,000 · Other+9 moreTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INCTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · EducationTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD A…KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $20,000 · Human ServicesKENNETT ARE…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEB…EXPRESSIVE PATH INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesEXPRESSIVE …CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthCHESTER CO…CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHESTER CO…CHACONIA SUPPORT GROUP INC: $3,000 · HealthCHACONIA S…FRESH AIR FUND: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterRAZOM INC: $6,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 · International
Other$115,000Education$51,000Human Services$24,500Health$23,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Housing & Shelter$9,000International$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EDINA ABC FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPRESSIVE PATH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Cold Brook Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cold Brook Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report 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 Cold Brook Fund?

Find your warmest path to Cold Brook Fund 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 32 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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