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Fields Family Foundation Trust Cary Fields

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.

$339k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$798kInternational$604kCommunity Improvement$500kCrime & Legal$235kHealth$180kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kRecreation & Sports$32kReligion$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
$110,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN UNIVERSITY$125,000
FEDERAL ENFORCE HOMELAND SEC$110,000
WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION$100,000
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC$3,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDRENS LIFESAVING FOUNDATION: $27k → 14%TOMORROWS HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%PUTNAM VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $25k → 6%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HUDSON VALLEY: $30k → 9%PATAKE LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING CENTER: $500k → 12%ST JOHN'S SCHOOL OF LAW: $418k → 13%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $50k → 17%SURF CLUB FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%ABILIS INC: $10k → 9%YALE CANCER CENTER: $5k → 12%INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: $25k → 7%ST JOSEPH PTA: $5k → 6%PUTNAM VALLEY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP: $25k → 6%HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM: $20k → 9%ST JOHN'S SCHOOL OF LAW: $200k → 13%POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $25k → 17%BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $4k → 15%INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: $25k → 7%AYDENS ANNUAL INC: $5k → 6%PUTNAM VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $20k → 6%ST JOHN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 13%PROJECT SUNSHINE: $10k → 17%JAMES FISHER FDN: $25k → 7%HUDSON HIGHLANDS LAND TRUST: $25k → 6%St John's University School of Law: $125k → 13%WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%ST JOHN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 13%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50k → 17%WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 5 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$1.5M
$952k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+0%

Still filing today

80%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsInternationalHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WF
    Worldwide Friends Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +176%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $175k · revenue +8%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • PL
    PATAKE LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • SJ
    St John's University School of Law
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +22%

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
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
2
Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…

Health
3
The Vincent Smith School

The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.

Education
4
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
5
University of Mount Saint Vincent

Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)

Education
6
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
7
The Ideal School of Manhattan

An independent school providing a comprehensive educational program for children from K through 12th grade.

Education
8
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
Sunnyview Hospital and Rehabilitation Center

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sunnyview rehabilitation hospital is a member of st. peter's health…

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Sunshine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Surf Club Foundation 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

16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 26 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOHN'S SCHOOL OF LAW — $617,500 · OtherST JOHN'S SCHOOL OF LAWPATAKE LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING CENTER — $500,000 · OtherPATAKE LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING CENTERSt John's University School of Law — $125,000 · OtherSt John's University School of LawFEDERAL ENFORCE HOMELAND SEC — $110,000 · OtherFEDERAL ENFORCE HOMELAND SEC+12 more — $220,000 · Other+12 moreWorldwide Friends Foundation — $600,000 · InternationalWorldwide Friends Foundati…+1 more — $3,500 · InternationalST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $175,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UN…INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC — $50,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FO…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $50,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL…The Childrens Lifesaving Foundation — $26,500 · Recreation & SportsAYDENS ANNUAL INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,572,500International$603,500Education$275,000Recreation & Sports$31,500Youth Development$25,000Environment$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation — $600,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPutnam Valley Volunteer Fire Dept — $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Childrens Lifesaving Foundation — $26,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPUTNAM VALLEY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetABILIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAYDENS ANNUAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSURF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $3,500 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Fields Family Foundation Trust Cary Fields 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 74%
  • Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fields Family Foundation Trust Cary Fields?

Find your warmest path to Fields Family Foundation Trust Cary Fields 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 26 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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