· Private foundation
Four Pines Fund 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $527k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC | $454,043 |
| VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC | $345,862 |
| VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC | $329,279 |
| VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC | $165,880 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $117,690 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $97,616 |
| UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $83,333 |
| EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $62,500 |
| ZERO OVERDOSE CORP | $42,297 |
| COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONME | $4,193 |
| NORTHERN VERMONT UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $1,500 |
| PATHWAYS VERMONT INC | $1,001 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
Altarum is focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. we drive impactful changes in four domains: 1) transform health service delivery - we work…
The organization's mission is to advance patient safety worldwide by empowering the healthcare community to prevent medication errors.the organization accomplishes its mission through its interdisciplinary efforts to:- collect and analyze…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Enhancing community efforts to obtain, maintain and retain the primary healthcare workforce in southern vermont.
The denver research institute was established for the purpose of providing medical research and educational programs related to advancing the research mission of the veterans affairs medical center in denver, co.
The mission of the Foundation for Healthy Communities is to build healthier communities for all by leading partnerships, fostering collaboration, and creating innovative solutions to advance health and health care.
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The mission of associated physicians of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. (aphmfp) is to provide world class clinical care and medical instruction and to support cutting edge medical research.…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The mission of the policy center for maternal mental health is to close gaps in maternal mental health (mmh) care so that every mother, child, and family has the opportunity to thrive. key components of our mission and strategic focus…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry Ford Health System. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
6 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. 6 of the 10 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation
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 Four Pines Fund 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.
- Education Development Center Inc — 90% of income from government
- Pathways Vermont Inc — 77% 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.
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