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Edward a Bond Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
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 FY20172024.

Health$202kEducation$175kReligion$146kCommunity Improvement$62kArts & Culture$53kRecreation & Sports$29kAnimals$12kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$457k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JOHN'S PREPATORY SCHOOL$25,000
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$12,500
ST FRANCIS BY THE SEA$7,500
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH$7,500
HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION$6,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION$5,000
ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,500
THE MOLES$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$2,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL AT DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK (CHAD)$2,000
BRUNSWICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,000
SAINT JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL$2,000
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION$2,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $1k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $1k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $1k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $500 → 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

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
SC
TX
FL

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$660k · 45 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
14

Total granted

$660k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+22%

Still filing today

49%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +31%
  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +88%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +17%
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -8%
  • CC
    CHARLES CONNOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $1k

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
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
2
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
3
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
4
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

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

7
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
8
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

9
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
10
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
11
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 backsteadyClassical Music EnsemblesVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersPublic University Foundatio…Cancer Support OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionPublic Library SupportYouth Development CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Pantries & AssistanceLand Conservation Organizat…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr14%43%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,326

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

31 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. 31 of the 63 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAHEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $85,000 · OtherLAHEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $67,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST FRANCIS BY THE SEA — $32,500 · OtherST FRANCIS BY THE SEASAINT JOHN'S PREPATORY SCHOOL — $32,500 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S PREPATORY SCHOOLHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH — $12,500 · Other+36 more — $87,200 · Other+36 moreWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $119,500 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE O…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Education+3 more — $6,250 · EducationLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC FO…Children's Hospital Corporation — $12,500 · HealthChildren's Hosp…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $10,500 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERS…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $8,500 · HealthDana-Farber Can…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION — $37,200 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL …THE MOLES — $19,500 · Community ImprovementTHE MOLESARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR JAZZ FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION — $28,200 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $2,500 · PhilanthropyHILTON HEAD HEROES INC — $1,250 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $2,500 · Human ServicesPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $200 · Human Services
Other$316,700Education$132,750Health$96,500Community Improvement$56,700Arts & Culture$52,500Philanthropy$32,450Human Services$3,700

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 budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $119,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION — $37,200 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION — $28,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MOLES — $19,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities of South Carolina — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE — $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR JAZZ FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HILTON HEAD LIBRARY — $2,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNew England College — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD HEROES INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHeroes of the Low Country — $1,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY DISCOVERY ROUTES — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE — $100 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.

  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION
  • Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds THE MOLES
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of South Carolina
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
  • Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry
  • Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE
  • Who funds JUNIOR JAZZ FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HILTON HEAD LIBRARY
  • Who funds New England College

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Bargain Box · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset · Wexford Foundation · Douglas O & Gail S Tozour Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · The Hack Foundation Inc

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 Edward a Bond 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 · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc1% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine Clinic0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report 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, 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.

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How do I get to Edward a Bond Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward a Bond 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 63 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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