How much did Fore Aces Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

Education$7.0MPhilanthropy$415kHuman Services$260kHousing & Shelter$220kHealth$115kCommunity Improvement$30kRecreation & Sports$21kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$10kOther$193k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

establish endowed

2020

learning

2021

—

2022

champlainpresident trusteestrustees colbybasketball

2023

champlainpresident trusteestrustees colby

2024

lake champlainbasketballpresident trusteestrustees colby

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $45k
$10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$250k+3 grants · $1.1M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$500,000
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC$400,000
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC$250,000
CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR$50,000
MATT BROWN FOUNDATION INC$50,000
SPECTRUM INC$50,000
LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC$25,000
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$12,500
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$10,000
RHINO FOODS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SHELBURNE FARMS$5,000
KING STREET CENTER INC$5,000
PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER INC$5,000
UNBUCKLED FOUNDATION INC$5,000
FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.2M · 20 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.2M

$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

Still filing today

80%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

LC
LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
4× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +83%
CH
CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
5× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +61%
SI
SPECTRUM INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +124%

Funded once

JC
JACKS CORNER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +32%
PF
PARTNERSHIPS FOR LITERACY AND LEARNINGgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +70%
PF
PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -41% · 44% of their budget

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.

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Engaging local business leaders in governmental and philanthropic activities, connecting and educating its members, and providing a forum for addressing the needs of the cambridge, massachusetts business community.

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Waterbury Development Corporation

Long range planning for economic development

Community Improvement

Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

Nationally accredited land conservation trust

Environment

Vineyard Power Development Fund Inc

Fosters local, renewable energy resources and energy efficiencies within the community.

Philanthropy

Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

Promote understanding of the world and its people, places, and cultures through engagement

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Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and regenerative practices and business models by helping climate-motivated professionals lead such transformation through their careers, company-building, and intrapreneurship.

Environment

Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy (continues in sched o)(continued) solutions the world needs.

Environment

The Summit Center Inc

To prepare children and adults with developmental disabilities or behavioral challenges and their families for life success. the organization's vision is that everyone with a disability will achieve a full and productive life.

Education

Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

We are ct's only locally owned media organization producing tv, radio, print and internet content with a mix of educational, new, public affairs, children's and entertainment programming.

Arts & Culture

Community Boating Inc

To make sailing and water sports accessible to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center On Rural Innovation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Champlain Community Sailing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

11%

1,358/12,910

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$7,014,665Philanthropy$415,000Human Services$260,000Housing & Shelter$220,000Other$243,500Health$115,000Community Improvement$30,000

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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT37× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Onda Foundation Inc · The Argosy Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · National Life Group Charitable · The Kelsey Trust · Christina Heroy Foundation · Fanny Allen Corporation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau

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 organisation Fore Aces Family Foundation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~20 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462836897 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 44% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Fore Aces Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fore Aces Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Fore Aces Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fore Aces Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Fore Aces Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fore Aces Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph