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David G Taft Foundation at a glance

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David G Taft Foundation

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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$106kReligion$58kEducation$58kPublic Benefit$32kRecreation & Sports$31kEnvironment$26kHousing & Shelter$21kHuman Services$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$550
Median grant
8
States reached
$660k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER$12,600
FRIENDS OF THE TAFT LEGACY$11,350
UNION CHURCH$5,000
CHARLOTTE CLUBHOUSE$5,000
FAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL$4,100
THE FRIENDS IN ACTION$3,100
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$1,000
UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMITTEE$1,000
NAMI CHARLOTTE$1,000
MAINE NEEDS INC$550
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE$300
JOAN G LOVERING HEALTH CENTER$300
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOAVES & FISHES: $1k → 7%MAINE NEEDS INC: $550 → 7%PREBLE STREET: $250 → 7%MAINE NEEDS INC: $250 → 7%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1k → 10%PREBLE STREET: $250 → 7%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1k → 10%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $250 → 7%SUPPORTIVE HOUSIN COMMUNITIES: $2k → 10%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $250 → 7%NOURISH UP: $1k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%LOAVES AND FISHES: $1k → 10%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
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
CA
VA
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 54 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
34

Total granted

$377k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+33%

Still filing today

48%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • TH
    THE HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS' CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +39%
  • GREENPEACE FUND INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLUBHOUSE CHARLOTTE
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • SY
    SUMMERLIN YOUTH SPORTS
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
3
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
4
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
5
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
6
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
10
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shakti Rising 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

58 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. 58 of the 93 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS' CENTER INC: $94,600 · OtherTHE HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS' CENTER INCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $47,750 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHFRIENDS OF THE TAFT LEGACY: $30,850 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE TAFT LEGACYFAITH COMMUNITY LUTHERAN ACADEMY: $27,000 · OtherFAITH COMMUNITY LUTHERAN ACADEMYCHARLOTTE CLUBHOUSE: $17,100 · OtherSHAKTI RISING INC: $15,500 · OtherCLUBHOUSE CHARLOTTE: $12,000 · Other+57 more: $108,100 · Other+57 moreSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $9,700 · EnvironmentCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Environment+4 more: $1,450 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN NEVADA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsSUMMERLIN YOUTH SPORTS: $5,900 · Recreation & SportsLAS VEGAS SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsROOF ABOVE INC: $9,900 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureCrisis Assistance Ministry: $2,000 · Human ServicesSupportive Housing Communities Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $2,000 · Human ServicesSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $1,900 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,700 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,000 · Human ServicesMaine Needs Inc: $800 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity Alliance: $500 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET: $500 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $7,200 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS IN ACTION: $3,100 · PhilanthropyREADER TO READER INC: $400 · PhilanthropyOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $3,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,800 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,250 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · International
Other$352,900Environment$23,650Recreation & Sports$13,400Arts & Culture$12,900Human Services$12,400Philanthropy$10,700International$9,050

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 HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS' CENTER INC: $94,600 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSHAKTI RISING INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $9,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $9,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMERLIN YOUTH SPORTS: $5,900 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $3,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC: $3,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION: $3,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom School Partners Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSupportive Housing Communities Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNourish Up: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Learning Collaborative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Trays Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF PORTSMOUTH INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNC WARN INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADER TO READER INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Landing School of Boatbuilding & Design: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOWDOINHAM FOOD PANTRY: $200 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.

  • Who funds THE HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS' CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHAKTI RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SUMMERLIN YOUTH SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUERTO RICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Maine Community Found…United Way of Greater…Foundation for the Ca…The Presbyterian Hosp…Elmina B Sewall Found…The Trexler FoundationWomens Impact FundReny Charitable Found…The Apple Lane Founda…Simmons Foundation - …Saco & Biddeford Savi…Bangor Savings Bank F…
Maine Community Foundation IncME24.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Trexler Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · Reny Charitable Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank 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 David G Taft Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David G Taft Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Reader to Reader Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 93 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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