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Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$786k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Environment$1.1MEducation$711kArts & Culture$441kHuman Services$275kAnimals$273kScience & Tech$233kInternational$215kHousing & Shelter$177kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $421k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC$100,000
GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
PALMS FOR LIFE FUND INC$40,000
CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC$40,000
RIVERVIEW MANOR HOSE CO #3$35,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH ARCHIVES INC$30,000
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN$20,000
TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC$20,000
VETERAN'S PLACE$20,000
CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$20,000
GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC$20,000
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
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 (FY19–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%JEFFREY DESKOVIC FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $20k → 28%VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF TEXAS: $15k → 10%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%JEFFREY DESKOVIC FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 28%JEFFREY DESKOVIC FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 28%WILLING HANDS INC: $10k → 9%WILLING HANDS INC: $5k → 9%OXBOW SENIOR INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM: $5k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
GA
TX

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 45 repeat orgs$605k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
35

Total granted

$3.3M
$590k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+7%

Still filing today

78%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

  • RI
    RIVERKEEPER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $370k · revenue +34%
  • PF
    PALMS FOR LIFE FUND INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue ×51 · 29% of their budget
  • CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $207k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • AP
    Apex Protection Project
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue 0%
  • WB
    WILD BEAUTY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • FU
    FOOTHILL UNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%

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
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
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
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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4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
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
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothill Unity Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chabad Lubavitch Archives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsPublic Library OperationsDance Arts OrganizationsEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,498

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

59 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 87 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $360,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC — $105,000 · OtherRIVERVIEW MANOR HOUSE COMPANY #3 — $80,000 · OtherKEVIN EIDT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $75,000 · OtherUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $70,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $67,500 · OtherGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · OtherGARY SINISE FOUNDATION+54 more — $1,104,144 · Other+54 moreRIVERKEEPER INC — $370,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INCTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $225,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECO…CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $207,200 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHE…LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUN…GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE — $97,000 · EnvironmentGREAT BASIN INSTITUTEFRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC — $36,545 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $415,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…UCLA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA BAPT…SAFELINE INC — $25,000 · Education+3 more — $26,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $130,000 · Arts & CultureGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC — $92,500 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $52,500 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & CulturePALMS FOR LIFE FUND INC — $215,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRiverview Manor Hose Co #3 — $74,500 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $180,000 · InternationalApex Protection Project — $60,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $43,500 · AnimalsWIN PLACE HOME INC — $37,000 · AnimalsRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $10,000 · Animals
Other$1,981,644Environment$1,095,745Education$611,000Arts & Culture$307,500Public Safety & Disaster$289,500International$180,000Animals$150,500

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $415,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $370,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $225,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPALMS FOR LIFE FUND INC — $215,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $207,200 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $130,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC — $105,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT BASIN INSTITUTE — $97,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC — $92,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRiverview Manor Hose Co #3 — $74,500 over 3y, 48% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $65,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetApex Protection Project — $60,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $52,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFOOTHILL UNITY CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK STUDENTS OF CALIFORNIA UNITED — $48,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND — $47,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEFFREY DESKOVIC FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $40,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetTEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VETERANS' PLACE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWIN PLACE HOME INC — $37,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC — $36,545 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFRESNO METRO BLACK CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSAFELINE INC — $25,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINDING OUR STRIDE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBlake Memorial Library Association — $17,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNORTHEAST SLOPES INC — $16,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetTHE MOORPARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF TEXAS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGirls on the Run of Los Angeles County — $15,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDOWNSTREET HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDOW DRESSERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Mascoma Bank Foundati…New Hampshire Charita…Community Bank Na Fou…National Life Group C…Emily Landecker Found…The Couch Family Foun…Agnes M Lindsay TrustKaiser Foundation Hos…California Community …Sempra Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT30.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Couch Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · Sempra 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 Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Safeline Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Northeast Slopes Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Downstreet Housing and Community Development Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Friends of the Winooski River Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Blake Memorial Library Association — 1% of income from government
  • The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 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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