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Eastman Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Philanthropy$2.9MEnvironment$234kEducation$132kHousing & Shelter$38kHuman Services$34kArts & Culture$32kScience & Tech$30kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,910,977
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR-ADVISED FUND AT FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST$2,910,977
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 (FY19–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARLETON WILLARD HOMES INC: $10k → 8%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $4k → 12%CARLETON WILLARD HOMES INC: $5k → 8%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 12%CARLETON WILLARD HOMES INC: $5k → 8%CARLETON WILLARD HOMES INC: $5k → 8%CARLETON WILLARD HOMES INC: $5k → 8%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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$522k · 19 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
1

Total granted

$522k
$2.9M

Still filing today

58%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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

  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    5× · 2019–2023 · $210k · revenue +23%
  • PA
    PROCTOR ACADEMY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • CH
    CARLETON-WILLARD HOMES INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • DF
    DONOR-ADVISED FUND AT FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $2.9M

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
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
2
Carleton-Willard At Home Inc

The mission of carleton-willard at home is to bring the excellence and experience of carleton-willard village to seniors in the local communities by providing trustworthy and reliable services and programs that will enhance wellness,…

Human Services
3
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
4
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
5
Boston Architectural College

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

6
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
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President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Kennebunk Land Trust

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

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carleton-Willard Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Bennet Street 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR-ADVISED FUND AT FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST — $2,910,977 · OtherDONOR-ADVISED FUND AT FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA FIDUCIARY TRUST+10 more — $120,000 · OtherAppalachian Mountain Club — $209,900 · EnvironmentSOMERSET WOODS TRUSTEES — $24,000 · EnvironmentPROCTOR ACADEMY — $50,000 · EducationNorth Bennet Street School — $18,000 · EducationCARLETON-WILLARD HOMES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION — $6,000 · Human ServicesCONCERNED CITIZENS FOR SPRINGFIELD INC — $32,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — $2,000 · Employment
Other$3,030,977Environment$233,900Education$68,000Human Services$36,000Community Improvement$32,000Arts & Culture$30,000Employment$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $209,900 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS FOR SPRINGFIELD INC — $32,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCARLETON-WILLARD HOMES INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOMERSET WOODS TRUSTEES — $24,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY ROWING INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School — $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — $2,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club
  • Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY
  • Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR SPRINGFIELD INC
  • Who funds CARLETON-WILLARD HOMES INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY
  • Who funds SOMERSET WOODS TRUSTEES
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC
  • Who funds North Bennet Street School
  • Who funds EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries 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.

Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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

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 Eastman Charitable Foundation 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 · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc17% of income from government
  • Carleton-Willard Homes Inc5% of income from government
  • Community Rowing Inc2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club1% of income from government
  • National Braille Press Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Eastman Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eastman Charitable Foundation 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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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