· Private foundation
Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCORPORATED | $500,000 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $500,000 |
| SNOWCHANGE COOPERATIVE (LUMIMUUTOS OSUUSKUNTA) | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $400,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $400,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE (DAF) | $400,000 |
| WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES | $350,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST | $300,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $200,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $180,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $150,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $150,000 |
| WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC | $150,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $680k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +24%- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +4%
- LTLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MHMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue +41%
American Forestsgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +47%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
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.
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…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
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,…
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lehigh Conference of Churches and the most unlike its peers is Riegelsville Public Library. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 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. 63 of the 71 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.
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GATHERING WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Land is Life Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DELORES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA GUADALUPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LITTORAL 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.
Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Frank E Payne & Seba B Payne Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · The Century Fund Trust · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker 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 Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% 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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