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Edward a Bond Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$202kEducation$175kReligion$146kCommunity Improvement$62kArts & Culture$53kRecreation & Sports$29kAnimals$12kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$493k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS BY THE SEA$16,000
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$12,500
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION$5,000
LAHEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA$4,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND$3,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION$2,500
THE MOLES$2,500
TURNING POINT USA$2,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,500
HILTON HEAD HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL AT DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK (CHAD)$2,250
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$772k · 47 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
15

Total granted

$772k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+22%

Still filing today

51%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +31%
  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +42%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -8%
  • BM
    BRUNSWICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • HH
    HILTON HEAD HUMAN SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
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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3
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
4
Mcleod Physician Associates Ii

Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…

Health
5
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

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

Health
6
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
8
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
9
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
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
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
12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 65 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAHEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $90,000 · OtherLAHEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $67,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST FRANCIS BY THE SEA: $48,500 · OtherST FRANCIS BY THE SEASAINT JOHN'S PREPATORY SCHOOL: $32,500 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S PREPATORY SCHOOLHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $27,500 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH+37 more: $105,950 · Other+37 moreWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $132,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE O…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL…+3 more: $6,250 · EducationLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC FO…Children's Hospital Corporation: $22,500 · HealthChildren's Hosp…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERS…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,500 · HealthDana-Farber Can…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION: $39,700 · Community ImprovementTHE MOLES: $22,000 · Community ImprovementHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $29,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $33,200 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $3,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $3,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$371,450Education$147,750Health$108,500Community Improvement$61,700Arts & Culture$61,500Philanthropy$38,450Human Services$5,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $132,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION: $39,700 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $33,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $29,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOLES: $22,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HILTON HEAD LIBRARY: $3,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of South Carolina: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHeroes of the Low Country: $1,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD HEROES INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY DISCOVERY ROUTES: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE: $100 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.

  • 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 HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE MOLES ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HILTON HEAD LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of South Carolina ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Heritage Classic Foun…The Bargain BoxCoastal Community Fou…Rotary Club of Hilton…Wexford FoundationDouglas O & Gail S To…The Church Mouse Thri…Breedlove Foundation …The Thorpe Family Fou…Hilton Head Firefight…The Hack Foundation I…
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

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 Edward a Bond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward a Bond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 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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