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Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust

THE VISION OF THE DENNIS FAMILY IS TO CONTINUE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED IN RELATION WITH THE SITE THAT FURTHERS THE STUDY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$112kArts & Culture$22kReligion$21kCivil Rights$13kHealth$10kPhilanthropy$8kCommunity Improvement$6kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HOP BOTTOM HOSE COMPANY$50
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 11%SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH OF ABINGTON: $11k → 7%SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $10k → 10%SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 11%ENDLESS MTS HERITAGE REGION: $3k → 12%KEYSTONE COLLEGE: $10k → 13%BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY: $6k → 14%THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 17%DELTA RESEARCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN: $3k → 13%NFL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $450 → 7%ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 11%SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: $355 → 8%MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH OF ABINGTON: $5k → 7%HOP BOTTOM HOSE COMPANY: $50 → 11%KEYSTONE COLLEGE: $8k → 13%BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%MOTHER BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST CHURCH OF PHILA: $5k → 22%WADE CATTS NTHP GRANT MGR: $5k → 14%KAPPA ALPHA PSI PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI CHAPTER: $5k → 22%KAPPA ALPHA PSI PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI CHAPTER: $150 → 22%LONNIE MOORE IV: $13k → 22%LONNIE MOORE IV: $7k → 22%1926 FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 22%TYMIR BENNET: $1k → 22%ZIYAH WARE: $1k → 22%THE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%MUSIUM OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $7k → 22%AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIUM IN PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%MUSEUM OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $4k → 22%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

NY
PA
NJ
NE
MD
DE
DC
GA
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 6 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
25

Total granted

$99k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+39%

Still filing today

33%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DS
    DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $31k · revenue +76%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $19k
  • KC
    KEYSTONE COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • MS
    MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TS
    THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -11%
  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -8%
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
Lincoln University

Lincoln university is a public, historically black university (hbcu) that provides a liberal arts based, undergraduate education on its main residential campus in chester county, pennsylvania; and professional programs on its urban campus…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
6
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Morehouse College

Morehouse college is a historically black college whose mission is to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Research & Educational Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hop Bottom Hose Company. 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

19 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. 19 of the 33 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $17,500 · OtherKEYSTONE COLLEGESALEM BAPTIST CHURCH OF ABINGTON: $15,500 · OtherSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH OF ABINGTONBLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · OtherBLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITYMORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherMORGAN STATE UNIVERSITYMUSIUM OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $6,902 · OtherMUSIUM OF AMERICAN REVOLUTIONCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADEPHIA: $5,250 · OtherKAPPA ALPHA PSI PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI CHAPTER: $5,150 · OtherNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC PA CHAPTER: $5,091 · OtherWADE CATTS NTHP GRANT MGR: $5,000 · OtherMOTHER BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST CHURCH OF PHILA: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $13,475 · Other+10 moreDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $31,144 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITYSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGETHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATIONTHE 1926 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE 1926 FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $450 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $3,657 · Arts & CultureSusquehanna County Historical Society & Free Libra: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthDELTA RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsTHE MALCOLM JENKINS FOUNDATION: $1,922 · Youth Development
Other$118,868Education$56,594Arts & Culture$11,157Health$10,000Public Benefit$5,000Civil Rights$5,000Youth Development$1,922

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 budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $31,144 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADEPHIA: $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC PA CHAPTER: $5,091 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetDELTA RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1926 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $3,657 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $2,570 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSusquehanna County Historical Society & Free Libra: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MALCOLM JENKINS FOUNDATION: $1,922 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAfrican-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: $355 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOP BOTTOM HOSE COMPANY: $50 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC12.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust 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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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