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Eng Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$8kHealth$7kCrime & Legal$4kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$2kFood & Nutrition$1kRecreation & Sports$975Animals$900Other$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UHAB$1,000
Individual grant recipient$750
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$500
NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$500
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL$500
EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $250 → 12%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $500 → 14%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $500 → 11%CAMP TREETOPS: $3k → 13%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $500 → 17%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUND: $200 → 14%CENTRO DE LOS DERECHOS DEL MIGRANTE: $150 → 19%WAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $250 → 7%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $500 → 9%FRIENDS OF MOUNT ABRAM SCHOOL: $3k → 13%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON: $500 → 14%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INST: $500 → 11%CAMP TREETOPS: $500 → 13%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $200 → 17%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON: $500 → 14%CAMP TREETOPS: $250 → 13%DEATH PENALTY CLINIC: $1k → 10%FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $1k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY: $950 → 10%PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH: $500 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY: $850 → 10%UHAB: $1k → 17%PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH: $250 → 7%DEATH PENALTY CLINIC: $750 → 10%URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE BOARD: $1k → 17%PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH: $225 → 7%DEATH PENALTY CLINIC: $750 → 10%URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE BOARD: $1k → 17%MAINE COAST WALDORF SCHOOL: $1k → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $250 → 10%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 17%TELLING ROOM: $700 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY: $600 → 10%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 17%TELLING ROOM: $600 → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW: $1k → 10%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 17%PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $340 → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW: $700 → 10%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 17%TELLING ROOM: $250 → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW: $700 → 10%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 17%EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW: $500 → 10%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $500 → 17%EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW: $250 → 10%ASPCA: $500 → 17%ASPCA: $200 → 17%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 17 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$28k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+36%

Still filing today

59%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCrime & LegalAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • EB
    EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +57%
  • UH
    URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +125%
  • TT
    The Telling Room
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MOUNT ABRAM SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • FP
    FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +800%
  • MC
    MAINE COAST WALDORF SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $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
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
2
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
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
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
5
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
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
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
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
10
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
11
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

18 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. 18 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $6,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINEIndividual grant recipient: $4,025 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF MOUNT ABRAM SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF MOUNT ABRAM SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY: $2,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEYUHAB: $1,000 · OtherMAINE COAST WALDORF SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+12 more: $3,665 · Other+12 moreEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $3,400 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY CO…+1 more: $100 · Crime & LegalRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $1,000 · EducationNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $500 · EducationWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $450 · EducationWilliams College: $250 · EducationURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Telling Room: $1,550 · Youth DevelopmentFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $1,000 · Food & NutritionPortland Community Squash: $975 · Recreation & Sports
Other$24,090Crime & Legal$3,500Education$2,200Housing & Shelter$2,000Youth Development$1,550Food & Nutrition$1,000Recreation & Sports$975

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $3,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Telling Room: $1,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Community Squash: $975 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $565 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO DE LOS DERECHOS DEL MIGRANTE INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Health System: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON LAW: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGINE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · 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

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 Eng Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eng Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Eng Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Eng Family Charitable Trust 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 30 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home