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Frank E Payne & Seba B Payne Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frank E Payne & Seba B Payne Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.4M
Granted FY2022
55
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Environment$3.7MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$890kCivil Rights$830kInternational$750kOther$0
02FY2022 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 55 grants below total $6,916,470, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,406,470 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,490,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $4.0M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.6M
$100,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FIELD MUSEUM$600,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$500,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE, INC$500,000
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$400,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CTR$380,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$250,000
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORP$227,620
THE CONSERVATION FUND$200,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CTR$200,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$200,000
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$200,000
GLAD$200,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$200,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SOUTHERN WI$150,000
FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES$125,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 3 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
66

Total granted

$546k
$6.9M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • NM
    NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORP
    2× · 2020–2022 · $371k
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL HEART
    2× · 2020–2022 · $135k
  • CP
    CHILDRENS PLACE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $40k

Funded once

  • LT
    LAND TRUST ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
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.

03Its 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
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
6
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
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
9
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters

New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…

—
10
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…

Environment
11
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
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lehigh Conference of Churches; the most unlike its peers is Transformative Freedom Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 119 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $500,000 · OtherDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA: $500,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $500,000 · OtherNATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORP: $371,210 · Other+92 more: $7,755,800 · Other+92 moreLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIA…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $400,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCE…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $380,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LA…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW…THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION…CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $200,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICUL…SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $100,000 · Environment+1 more: $45,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500,000 · HealthCASA GUADALUPE CENTER: $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $600,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc: $120,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100,000 · EducationFood For Thought Denver: $75,000 · EducationJUBILEE SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationRIEGELSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,700 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200,000 · InternationalEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $100,000 · International
Other$9,627,010Environment$2,025,000Health$660,000Arts & Culture$610,000Civil Rights$450,000Education$350,700International$300,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $600,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $380,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $125,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetBLACK FARMER FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DELORES PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCASA GUADALUPE CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $75,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $71,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW BETHANY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetShareCare Faith in Action: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTrails End Wildlife Refuge Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetRIEGELSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,700 over 1y, 21% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE FREEDOM FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetStoryCenter: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF LEHIGH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND 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.

Frank E Payne and Seb…United Way of the Gre…Lehigh Valley Communi…The Rider-Pool Founda…Sylvia Perkin Perpetu…Harry C Trexler EstateThe Century Fund TrustThe Donald B and Doro…Air Products Foundati…Shaffer Family Charit…Verna O Canova Founda…Ross J Born and Wendy…
Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne FoundationIL39.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · The Century Fund Trust · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Shaffer Family Charitable Trust · Verna O Canova Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust

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.

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 119 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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