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Fields Pond Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$528k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$2.2MRecreation & Sports$99kFood & Nutrition$76kCommunity Improvement$30kPublic Benefit$15kHealth$13kAnimals$12kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $455k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST$25,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$25,000
MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST$25,000
BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS INC$25,000
PUTNEY MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
WESTERLY LAND TRUST$20,000
GREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INC$20,000
SCARBOROUGH LAND CONSERVATION TRUST$20,000
HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST$15,000
KESTREL LAND TRUST INC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST$15,000
HARVARD CONSERVATION TRUST$15,000
WOODSTOCK CONSERVATION COMMISSION$15,000
VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS$15,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEPONSET RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%WILDLANDS TRUST INC: $15k → 8%STOW CONSERVATION TRUST: $15k → 8%GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC: $15k → 10%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $15k → 11%TOWN OF LEVERETT: $15k → 14%BOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $15k → 16%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%MOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY: $15k → 14%WESTERLY LAND TRUST: $20k → 7%WINDMILL HILL PINNACLE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%SWAINS LAKE VILLAGE WATER DISTRICT: $17k → 9%MIDCOAST CONSERVANCY: $15k → 9%COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST: $15k → 11%MAINE FARMLAND TRUST: $15k → 13%RANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST: $20k → 14%ROCHESTER LAND TRUST: $15k → 8%ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 10%WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $20k → 11%BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $25k → 12%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25k → 16%BETHANY LAND TRUST: $15k → 12%BULL CREEK COMMON LANDS INC: $25k → 9%VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: $15k → 10%PUTNEY MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 11%TOWN OF HAMPTON: $20k → 5%PISCATAQUOG LAND CONSERVANCY: $15k → 7%MOOSE MOUNTAINS REGIONAL GREENWAYS: $25k → 9%BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $15k → 11%MAINE FARMLAND TRUST: $15k → 13%FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE: $20k → 15%ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 10%COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $15k → 11%BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $25k → 12%NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST: $15k → 16%CHAMPLAIN AREA TRAILS: $20k → 13%ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $20k → 7%ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 10%ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $25k → 8%ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 10%COASTAL RIVERS CONSERVATION TRUST: $25k → 9%ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $20k → 8%NORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $25k → 11%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND PORTLAND OFFIC: $25k → 7%DAMARISCOTTA RIVER ASSOCIATION: $25k → 9%PRESUMPSCOT REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $25k → 7%MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $25k → 11%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

ME
VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
CT
RI
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 23% of Fields Pond Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 72%.

Fields Pond Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 16% 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 42 repeat orgs$994k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
75

Total granted

$1.5M
$851k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+28%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +148%
  • HC
    HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +338%
  • MG
    MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +143%
  • PR
    Presumpscot Regional Land Trust
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • MM
    MOOSE MOUNTAINS REGIONAL GREENWAYS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13%
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
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
2
Brewster Conservation Trust

Land conservation

Environment
3
Aspetuck Land Trust

Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.

Environment
4
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
5
Lakes Region Conservation Trust

The mission of the Organization is the conservation of the natural resources of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, the preservation of wildlife habitat, the stewardship of lands that define the character of the region and its quality of…

Environment
6
Redding Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…

Environment
7
Alford Land Trust Inc

Open Space Preservation

Environment
8
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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9
Nashoba Conservation Trust

Acquire, preserve and maintain natural resources and wildlife habitat areas (land conservation).

Environment
10
Farmington Land Trust

The Farmington Land Trust Inc protects open space in the town of Farmington CT through the acquisition of open space, stewardship of acquired land, education of the public about the importance of open space and advocacy that ensures…

Environment
11
Rehoboth Land Trust

Preserves the natural beauty & resources of rehoboth, ma through conservation and ownership. maintains trails and hosts educational programming about wildlife and plants to encourage public appreciation and stewardship of our natural…

Environment
12
Princeton Land Trust

The princeton land trust was formed to preserve the natural beauty and rural character of the town of princeton.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hope Cemetery & Woods. 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

110 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. 110 of the 131 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
78/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $155,000 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATIONHARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentHARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST+83 more: $1,542,060 · Environment+83 moreKESTREL LAND TRUST: $60,000 · OtherKESTREL LAND TRUSTSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS: $40,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECT…STOW CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $32,000 · OtherSTOW CONSERVATION TRUST…THE WESTERLY LAND TRUST: $25,000 · OtherPresumpscot Regional Land Trust: $25,000 · OtherTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND PORTLAND OFFIC: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+24 more: $262,015 · Other+24 moreMaine Farmland Trust: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionCHAMPLAIN AREA TRAILS INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF HOPE CEMETERY & WOODS: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsVERMONT HUTS ASSOCIATION LTD: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTAMWORTH COMMUNITY NURSE ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · HealthADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureHIRUNDO WILDLIFE TRUST: $2,000 · Animals
Environment$1,797,060Other$514,015Food & Nutrition$71,000Recreation & Sports$55,000Community Improvement$30,000Health$12,500Arts & Culture$5,500Animals$2,000

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 budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $155,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST: $100,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $55,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMidcoast Conservancy: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetScarborough Land Conservation Trust: $43,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $42,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBULL CREEK COMMON LANDS: $35,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPutney Mountain Association Incorporated: $32,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSTOW CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $32,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LAND TRUST COALITION: $26,300 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetTHE WESTERLY LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHAMPLAIN AREA TRAILS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPresumpscot Regional Land Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMOOSE MOUNTAINS REGIONAL GREENWAYS: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNeponset River Watershed Association: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST QUABBIN LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHERN CONNECTICUT LAND TRUST INC: $17,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Land Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARVARD CONSERVATION TRUST: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Davis Conservation Fo…Bafflin FoundationThe Nature ConservancyFidelity FoundationWilliam P Wharton Tru…Maine Community Found…Onion FoundationJohn Sage FoundationIbm International Fou…Open Space Institute …Momentum ConservationEdward C Johnson Fund
Davis Conservation FoundationME89.9× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Conservation Foundation · Bafflin Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Fidelity Foundation · William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D) · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · John Sage Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc · Momentum Conservation · Edward C Johnson Fund

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 Fields Pond Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fields Pond Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Groton Open Space Association Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated: 49% of income from government
  • Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association: 47% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Putney Mountain Association Incorporated: 44% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Wareham Land Trust Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: 17% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Catamount Trail Association: 10% of income from government
  • East Quabbin Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Neponset River Watershed Association: 8% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Barnstable Land Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Bull Creek Common Lands: 4% of income from government
  • Grow Native Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Orleans Conservation Trust: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Harvard Conservation Trust: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Fields Pond Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fields Pond 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 131 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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