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Fore River Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$3.9MEducation$1.8MCivil Rights$1.8MHealth$901kPublic Benefit$855kArts & Culture$743kReligion$611kFood & Nutrition$486kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $654k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $881k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Trust for Public Lands$128,000
Brennan Center for Justice$125,000
Earthjustice$120,000
Center for Science in the Public Inter$100,000
Maine Family Planning$100,000
Center for Reproductive Rights$77,000
Land and Garden Preserve$65,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$61,000
University of Maine$55,000
News Literacy Project$50,000
Guttmacher Institute$43,000
Constitutional Accountability Center$40,000
Friends of Acadia$36,000
St Timothy's School$35,000
Benton Falls Church$30,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Aftermath: $5k → 14%Climb Wyoming: $20k → 10%She Should Run: $25k → 14%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $15k → 10%Climb Wyoming: $10k → 10%Make a Wish Greater Bay Area: $2k → 10%She Should Run: $18k → 14%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $10k → 10%She Should Run: $10k → 14%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $10k → 10%She Should Run: $10k → 14%She Should Run: $10k → 14%She Should Run: $10k → 14%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $26k → 11%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $5k → 10%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $2k → 10%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $6k → 11%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $2k → 11%West Marin Senior Services: $1k → 8%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $2k → 10%Hobe Sound Early Learning Center: $1k → 10%Osher Marin JCC: $6k → 8%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $1k → 11%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $1k → 11%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Osher Marin JCC: $1k → 8%Freeport Community Services: $13k → 7%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $500 → 11%Freeport Community Services: $11k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $10k → 7%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $500 → 11%Freeport Community Services: $6k → 7%Mount Desert Island YMCA: $500 → 11%Freeport Community Services: $4k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%Freeport Community Services: $3k → 7%American Red Cross: $4k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 131 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

131 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
78

Total granted

$11M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+5%

Still filing today

71%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +119%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $705k · revenue +114%
  • FO
    Friends of Acadia
    8× · 2017–2025 · $684k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Virginia
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS OF ROUND POND
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · 30% of their budget
  • SH
    SOUTHWEST HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +104%

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
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
2
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
7
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
8
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
9
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
10
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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11
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Portland Esl Scholarship Fund. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsYouth Development CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Public Library OperationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringSenior Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/150
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,415

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.

04the grantee network

139 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. 139 of the 228 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)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/139
Grantees still filing
91/139
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Brennan Center — $679,000 · OtherBrennan CenterMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve — $436,000 · OtherMount Desert Land and Garden PreserveACLU of Maine Foundatiom — $325,000 · OtherACLU of Maine FoundatiomGuttmacher Institute Inc — $205,000 · OtherPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING — $200,000 · Other+122 more — $3,606,296 · Other+122 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,095,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDEARTHJUSTICE — $705,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEFriends of Acadia — $683,500 · EnvironmentFriends of AcadiaMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $447,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust+12 more — $399,000 · Environment+12 moreTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $340,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITER…CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL — $270,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $225,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BREN…ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC — $163,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHO…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DE…THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL — $88,000 · EducationTHE HOLTON ARM…Trustees of Tufts College — $75,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $57,500 · Education+13 more — $252,000 · Education+13 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $467,000 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $70,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $30,000 · Civil RightsGRANDMOTHERS FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $24,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $18,000 · Civil RightsFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $397,500 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $57,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $25,500 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $18,000 · Health+2 more — $24,500 · HealthCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $400,000 · Food & NutritionMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $26,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FISHES OF HOBE SOUND INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $14,000 · Food & NutritionORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $182,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE PRESERVATION — $56,000 · Arts & CultureREADFIELD UNION MEETING HOUSE CO — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBell Hill Meeting House Association — $29,278 · Arts & CultureMount Desert Festival of Chamber Music — $29,000 · Arts & CultureJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc — $20,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $98,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,451,296Environment$3,330,000Education$1,590,500Civil Rights$609,000Health$522,500Food & Nutrition$460,000Arts & Culture$445,278

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,095,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $705,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $683,500 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $467,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $447,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve — $436,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $400,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $397,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $340,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL — $270,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc — $205,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING — $200,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $182,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER — $165,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC — $163,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $153,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGROWSMART MAINE — $110,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $103,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL — $88,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHE SHOULD RUN — $83,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $64,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $62,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF ROUND POND — $60,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEDGWICK-BROOKLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $57,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $57,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION — $56,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC — $51,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $50,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $44,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMt Desert Island YMCA — $37,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $37,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $37,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA — $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC — $35,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOLAND SPRING PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $30,000 over 1y, 18% 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.

  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWSMART MAINE ↗
  • Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS OF ROUND POND ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Colket Family Foundat…Ethel D Colket Founda…Davis Family Foundati…Elmina B Sewall Found…Hattie a and Fred C L…Gerrish H Milliken Fo…The Widgeon Point Cha…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Horizon Foundation IncStephen & Tabitha Kin…The Bessemer Giving F…
Maine Community Foundation IncME70.3× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Horizon Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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 Fore River 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Fore River Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fore River Foundation 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 228 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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