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Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$8.8MHousing & Shelter$4.2MArts & Culture$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MPhilanthropy$865kCivil Rights$850kPublic Safety & Disaster$725kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $322k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.7M
$85,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$164M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SNOWCHANGE COOPERATIVE (LUMIMUUTOS OSUUSKUNTA)$500,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCORPORATED$500,000
FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$500,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE (DAF)$400,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$400,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$400,000
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES$350,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$350,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST$300,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC$200,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$200,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND$180,000
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC$150,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$150,000
URBAN PEAK DENVER$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON INC: $50k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $75k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $75k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON INC: $50k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $30k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST INC: $30k → 11%NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY: $20k → 17%NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY: $15k → 17%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC (LVCC): $100k → 11%SIGHT FOR HOPE (FKA CENTER FOR VISION LOSS INC): $50k → 11%SIGHT FOR HOPE (FKA CENTER FOR VISION LOSS INC): $35k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 50 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
16

Total granted

$15M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +9%
  • FM
    FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +4%
  • LT
    LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MH
    MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue +41%
  • American Forestsgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +47%
  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its 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
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
2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

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

Crime & Legal
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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8
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,…

—
9
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
10
American Gas Association

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…

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11
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

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 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,380,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT COR…LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $800,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $600,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER O…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INCAmerican Forests: $300,000 · Environment+5 more: $680,000 · Environment+5 moreMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $3,000,000 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSETTS HOUS…URBAN PEAK DENVER: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN PEAK DENVERTHE DELORES PROJECT: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DELORES PROJEC…+1 more: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterSNOWCHANGE COOPERATIVE (LUMIMUUTOS OSUUSKUNTA): $500,000 · OtherSNOWCHANGE COOPERATIVE (LUMIMUUTOS …FIDELITY CHARITABLE (DAF): $400,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (DAF)SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $400,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $300,000 · OtherWestern Resource Advocates: $700,000 · OtherWestern Resource AdvocatesAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUN…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $400,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $450,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc: $240,000 · Other+26 more: $2,761,000 · Other+26 moreFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,100,000 · Arts & CulturePENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureStoryCenter: $52,200 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $465,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARMER FUND INC: $237,500 · Community ImprovementPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $140,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $120,000 · Community ImprovementRIPPLE COMMUNITY INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $450,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $200,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $25,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $150,000 · Human ServicesPINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $150,000 · Human ServicesLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $100,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSIGHTS FOR HOPE: $85,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesNIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY: $35,000 · Human Services
Environment$7,160,000Housing & Shelter$3,610,000Other$6,801,000Arts & Culture$1,252,200Community Improvement$1,037,500Food & Nutrition$1,025,000Human Services$780,000

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 budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,380,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $3,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $800,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $700,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $600,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $465,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $450,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Forests: $300,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $300,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc: $240,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetBLACK FARMER FUND INC: $237,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATHERING WATERS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLand is Life Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DELORES PROJECT: $200,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BETHANY INC: $175,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE: $160,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $150,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $140,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA GUADALUPE CENTER: $115,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $110,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIGHTS FOR HOPE: $85,000 over 2y, 3.1% 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.

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.

United Way of the Gre…Frank E Payne & Seba …Lehigh Valley Communi…Air Products Foundati…Ross J Born and Wendy…Harry C Trexler EstateSylvia Perkin Perpetu…The Century Fund TrustThe Donald B and Doro…Ppl FoundationThe Rider-Pool Founda…Dexter F and Dorothy …
United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA39.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Frank E Payne and Seba B Payne 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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