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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.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$194kEnvironment$134kEducation$125kHousing & Shelter$92kYouth Development$62kFood & Nutrition$55kCommunity Improvement$54kHuman Services$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k57 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Christian Appalachian Project: $200 → 26%Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty: $1k → 12%Christian Appalachian Project: $200 → 26%Episcopal Relief & Development: $200 → 17%Northeast Kingdom Community Action: $1k → 14%Christian Appalachian Project: $200 → 26%Episcopal Relief & Development: $150 → 17%Christian Appalachian Project: $150 → 26%Episcopal Relief & Development: $150 → 17%Christian Appalachian Project: $150 → 26%Covenant House: $200 → 17%WomanSafe: $2k → 9%Resource: $4k → 10%Christian Appalachian Project: $100 → 26%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Covenant House: $200 → 17%WomanSafe: $2k → 9%Covenant House: $100 → 17%WomanSafe: $1k → 9%Stow Food Pantry: $150 → 8%The Stow Food Pantry: $150 → 8%The Stow Food Pantry: $50 → 8%Ginny's Helping Hand Inc: $3k → 11%Ginny's Helping Hand Inc: $3k → 11%Ginny's Helping Hands Inc: $3k → 11%Ginny's Helping Hands: $3k → 11%ReSOURCE: $5k → 10%ReSOURCE: $4k → 10%The Stow Food Pantry: $50 → 8%The Stow Food Pantry: $50 → 8%The Stow Food Pantry: $50 → 8%Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry Inc: $4k → 8%Household Goods: $100 → 8%Friends of Children - Boston: $5k → 16%Friends of Children - Boston: $5k → 16%Friends of Children - Boston: $5k → 16%The Michael Lisnow Respite Center: $1k → 8%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
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
AR
DC
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$745k · 92 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
34

Total granted

$745k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterArts & 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +42%
  • CB
    CITY BLOSSOMS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +145%
  • THE NATURE CONNECTION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • RF
    ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +80%
  • WC
    WORTHY CAUSES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · 55% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
2
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Wheaton College

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…

Education
5
Western New England University

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…

Education
6
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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7
Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development Inc

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.

—
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Ceres Inc

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…

Environment
11
Terracorps Inc

To prepare and mobilize emerging leaders to help communities gain access to and conserve land for people and nature.

Environment
12
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centerboard Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 143 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/89
Grantees still filing
66/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trinity Chapel: $165,542 · OtherTrinity ChapelTHE NATURE CONNECTION INC: $30,100 · OtherTHE NATURE CONNECTION INCCREATURE CONSERVE INC: $20,000 · Other+87 more: $282,076 · Other+87 moreUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $33,150 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $14,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…Lincoln Library Inc: $13,750 · EducationLincoln Libra…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,650 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY …TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF C…ROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $6,000 · EducationROBERT F KENN…Washington and Lee University: $4,400 · EducationNewburyport Education Foundation Inc: $4,000 · Education+5 more: $4,750 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSE…Kidsgardeningorg Inc: $11,000 · EnvironmentKidsgarden…NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $10,500 · EnvironmentNASHUA RIV…VERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $8,450 · EnvironmentVERMONT LA…Vermont Community Garden Network Inc: $7,000 · EnvironmentVermont Co…KESTREL LAND TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentKESTREL LA…LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST…KESTREL LAND TRUST INC: $4,200 · EnvironmentKESTREL LA…+4 more: $4,600 · Environment+4 moreCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $12,200 · Housing & ShelterThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterLONGFELLOW NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesATRIA COLLECTIVE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 · Human Services+9 more: $5,700 · Human ServicesCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $31,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTRE FOR FAITH ART & JUSTICE: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC: $5,700 · Arts & CultureVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $850 · Arts & Culture
Other$497,718Education$100,700Environment$75,750Housing & Shelter$67,200Human Services$57,700Youth Development$31,750Arts & Culture$25,550

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $33,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONNECTION INC: $30,100 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCREATURE CONSERVE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTRE FOR FAITH ART & JUSTICE: $14,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Library Inc: $13,750 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetSTOW CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $13,650 over 6y, 10% of budgetGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $12,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKidsgardeningorg Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $10,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $8,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $7,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Community Garden Network Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC: $6,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC: $5,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWORTHY CAUSES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLONGFELLOW NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATRIA COLLECTIVE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKESTREL LAND TRUST INC: $4,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNewburyport Education Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAREER COLLABORATIVE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEMO NOIR INC: $3,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely 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.

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 143 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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