· Private foundation
Fieldstone Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trinity Chapel | $26,992 |
| Stow Conservation Trust | $6,800 |
| The Nature Connection | $6,400 |
| Boston Area Gleaners | $6,000 |
| Creature Conserve Inc | $6,000 |
| Lionheart Foundation Inc | $5,100 |
| Pine Street Inn | $5,000 |
| Kestral Land Trust Inc | $5,000 |
| MassAudubon - Drumlin Farm | $5,000 |
| ReSOURCE | $5,000 |
| Epiphany School | $5,000 |
| Governor's Institutes of Vermont | $5,000 |
| Longfellow Nonprofit Housing | $5,000 |
| City Blossoms | $5,000 |
| KidsGardeningorg | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +42%
- CBCITY BLOSSOMS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +145%
THE NATURE CONNECTION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- RFROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +80%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- WCWORTHY CAUSES INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · 55% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Education and Research
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
To prepare and mobilize emerging leaders to help communities gain access to and conserve land for people and nature.
Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centerboard Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Refuge of Clearwater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
89 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. 89 of the 143 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATURE CONSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRE FOR FAITH ART & JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Library Inc ↗
- Who funds STOW CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Kidsgardeningorg Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Community Garden Network Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Vermont Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc
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 Fieldstone Foundation Inc 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.
- Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
- Atria Collective Inc — 96% of income from government
- Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
- Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc — 82% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Community Workshops Inc — 39% of income from government
- Vermont Community Garden Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Addison County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Denison Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Nature Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Lincoln Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.