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Element Solutions Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$779k
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$452kPhilanthropy$443kInternational$418kHealth$275kYouth Development$236kEducation$86kFood & Nutrition$85kCivil Rights$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $182k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $346k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$131,233
BENEVITY$114,905
HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS LAND TRUST$100,000
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$46,700
POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY INC$25,000
PARK CENTRAL$15,000
EARTH DAY NETWORK$15,000
MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
WATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,836
SHOOTING STAR CHILDREN'S HOSPICES$13,657
TURN- UND SPORTVEREIN RUDOW 1888 EV$11,816
EASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER OF GREATER WATERBURY$10,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 79% of grant dollars ($2.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($545k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 8%CHARITY GLOBAL: $14k → 20%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $1k → 9%CARRIE STEELE-PITTS HOME INC: $5k → 13%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $1k → 9%CARRIE STEELE-PITTS HOME INC: $5k → 13%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $500 → 9%MUST MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%CARRIE STEELE PITTS HOME: $5k → 13%CAROLYN'S PLACE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $3k → 12%AL'S ANGELS: $10k → 9%ACTS 4 MINISTRY INC: $3k → 12%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
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($545k)

7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$244k · 5 grants
United Kingdom$199k · 52 grants
India$48k · 2 grants
Germany$38k · 7 grants
Turkey$10k · 1 grant
Japan$4k · 2 grants
Sweden$446 · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Element Solutions Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Element Solutions Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 39 repeat orgs$729k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
88

Total granted

$1.7M
$417k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+5%

Still filing today

74%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $131k · revenue +20%
  • PA
    POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +60%
  • EN
    Equality Now Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
  • AF
    AKSHAYAPATRA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $33k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF MADRAS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
9
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
10
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
11
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
12
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shaggy Dog Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 179 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
39/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENEVITY: $244,195 · OtherBENEVITYIndividual grant recipient: $160,802 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES: $57,225 · OtherWATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC: $48,880 · OtherMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Other+130 more: $780,895 · Other+130 moreSave The Children Federation Inc: $132,975 · InternationalSave The Children Fe…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $130,850 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $93,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND F…Equality Now Inc: $54,500 · InternationalEquality Now IncAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $24,017 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $18,000 · International+3 more: $16,000 · InternationalTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $180,400 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES F…Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentHighlands-Cashie…EARTH DAY NETWORK INC: $78,200 · EnvironmentEARTH DAY NETWOR…BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $15,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $149,799 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPOLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARK CENTRAL INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project: $5,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · HealthALS UNITED CONNECTICUT: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthWILLIAM F RYAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $8,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+4 more: $5,500 · HealthCARRIE STEELE-PITTS HOME INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $13,700 · Human ServicesALS ANGELS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesACTS 4 MINISTRY INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCAROLYNS PLACE INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$1,341,997International$469,342Environment$383,600Philanthropy$174,799Youth Development$106,500Health$94,000Human Services$63,700

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 budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $180,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $149,799 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $132,975 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $130,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $93,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC: $78,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPOLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY: $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $54,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC: $48,880 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER OF GREATER WATERBURY INC: $43,821 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $37,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CENTRAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $27,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $24,017 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $20,240 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARRIE STEELE-PITTS HOME INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $13,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $13,576 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH LYON AREA YOUTH ASSISTANCE: $13,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetALS UNITED CONNECTICUT: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER WATERBURY CAMPERSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDZ2LEADERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENS CAMPAIGN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC: $9,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM F RYAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - MOTOR CITY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Avenue Dream Center: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Thomaston Savings Ban…The Connecticut Commu…Ion Bank Foundation I…American Savings Foun…Elisha Leavenworth Fo…Tw Marian W Ottley-Wa…The United Way of Gre…Savings Bank of Danbu…Webster Bank Charitab…Trinity Health of New…The Leever FoundationAetna Foundation Inc
Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation IncCT27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley-Watertown · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Trinity Health of New England Corporation Inc · The Leever Foundation · Aetna 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 Element Solutions Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Element Solutions Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association: 21% of income from government
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Park Central Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
20report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Element Solutions Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Element Solutions 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 179 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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