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Fresh Sound Foundation Inc

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$1.1MPublic Benefit$1.0MEducation$600kScience & Tech$525kPhilanthropy$521kCivil Rights$433kFood & Nutrition$422kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $800k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CERES INC$75,000
ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND$75,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$75,000
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT$50,000
GENERATION CITIZEN$45,000
ALL VOTING IS LOCAL$45,000
NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT$40,000
EMERSON COLLEGE$40,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$40,000
FAIR COUNT INC$40,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$40,000
FRESH GRASS (OFFICE PERFORMING ARTS & FILM INC)$40,000
YELLOW BARN INC$40,000
AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW$40,000
FAIR COUNT INC$35,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 12%FRESH GRASS (OFFICE PERFORMING ARTS & FILM INC): $40k → 17%AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY: $50k → 14%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $50k → 18%WHOLESOME WAVE: $40k → 9%FAIR COUNT INC: $50k → 14%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $50k → 8%NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT: $40k → 11%FRESH GRASS (OFFICE PERFORMING ARTS & FILM INC): $40k → 17%AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW: $40k → 14%WHOLESOME WAVE: $40k → 9%FAIR COUNT INC: $40k → 14%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $40k → 8%NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT: $40k → 11%AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW: $40k → 14%WHOLESOME WAVE: $40k → 9%FAIR COUNT INC: $40k → 14%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $40k → 8%YELLOW BARN INC: $40k → 11%CERES INC: $75k → 16%WHOLESOME WAVE: $40k → 9%FAIR COUNT INC: $40k → 14%YELLOW BARN INC: $40k → 11%AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE: $50k → 8%CERES INC: $60k → 16%ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND: $75k → 17%NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT: $40k → 11%GENERATION CITIZEN: $45k → 16%ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND: $75k → 17%GENERATION CITIZEN: $45k → 16%ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND: $75k → 17%ALTERNATE ROOTS INC: $60k → 14%GENERATION CITIZEN: $43k → 16%ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND: $75k → 17%ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND: $75k → 17%ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND: $75k → 17%CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $50k → 17%LIVING ART INTL FBO CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $50k → 17%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT: $75k → 14%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT: $50k → 14%EMERSON COLLEGE: $50k → 16%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT: $50k → 14%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT: $50k → 14%EMERSON COLLEGE: $50k → 16%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT: $50k → 14%NEW GEORGIA PROJECT: $50k → 14%EMERSON COLLEGE: $50k → 16%EMERSON COLLEGE: $50k → 16%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

ME
VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 44 repeat orgs$501k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
32

Total granted

$4.8M
$466k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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 UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +12%
  • NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $415k · revenue +0%
  • EMERSON COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • AR
    Alternate RootsInc
    one grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue -67%
  • CL
    CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TL
    THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -71%

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
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
3
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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4
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
5
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
6
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
7
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
8
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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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
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
11
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
12
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Groundworks Collaborative Inc. 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 backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Social ServicesSchool District FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportLocal Food System Organizat…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts Centers
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/64
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,501

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

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 86 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CERES INC — $295,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCWHOLESOME WAVE INC — $215,000 · EnvironmentWHOLESOME WAVE INCRIVER NETWORK — $165,000 · EnvironmentRIVER NETWORKTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC — $122,000 · EnvironmentTHOUSAND ISLANDS LA…Appalachian Mountain Club — $85,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountai…SAVE THE RIVER INC — $83,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE RIVER INCAMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST — $52,000 · Environment+5 more — $52,500 · EnvironmentNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $415,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PRO…WOMEN ENGAGED INC — $155,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN ENGAGED I…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $145,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE I…ALL VOTING IS LOCAL — $130,000 · Civil RightsALL VOTING IS L…+2 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $210,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CEN…FRESH GRASS (OFFICE PERFORMING ARTS & FILM INC) — $80,000 · OtherTHE JAR — $75,000 · OtherEducation Outside — $60,000 · OtherGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $218,500 · OtherGENERATION CITIZEN INCFAIR COUNT INC — $220,000 · OtherFAIR COUNT INCFOOD CONNECTS — $180,000 · OtherFOOD CONNECTS+39 more — $576,500 · Other+39 moreNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC — $268,000 · Arts & CultureNEXT STAGE ARTS…AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $195,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN REPERT…YELLOW BARN INC — $186,000 · Arts & CultureYELLOW BARN INCAlternate RootsInc — $85,000 · Arts & CultureAlternate Roots…Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center — $29,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $45,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreEMERSON COLLEGE — $320,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLE…AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $205,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONS…IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC — $60,000 · EducationIN-SIGHT PHOT…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $40,000 · EducationPresident and…MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS…THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $24,000 · Education+2 more — $11,000 · EducationROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC — $475,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELL…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $40,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamat…+2 more — $21,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $510,000 · InternationalTHE UNION…
Environment$1,069,500Civil Rights$855,000Other$1,620,000Arts & Culture$808,000Education$700,000Philanthropy$536,000International$510,000

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 UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $510,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC — $475,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $415,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $320,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCERES INC — $295,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC — $268,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC — $220,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $218,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE INC — $215,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $210,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $205,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $195,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOW BARN INC — $186,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS — $180,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetRIVER NETWORK — $165,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN ENGAGED INC — $155,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL VOTING IS LOCAL — $130,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC — $122,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAlternate RootsInc — $85,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAVE THE RIVER INC — $83,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetEducation Outside — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC — $60,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetAMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST — $52,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center — $29,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENROOTS INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE ALLIANCE FOR END OF LIFE OPTION — $15,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CERES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIR COUNT INC ↗
  • Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
  • Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds YELLOW BARN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD CONNECTS ↗
  • Who funds RIVER NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN ENGAGED INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ALL VOTING IS LOCAL ↗
  • Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds Alternate RootsInc ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds Education Outside ↗
  • Who funds IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
  • Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The John Merck FundThe Vermont Community…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationThe Windham Foundatio…Fiduciary Charitable …Clif Family FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncPatagoniaorgHenry P Kendall Found…New Hampshire Charita…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC23.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The John Merck Fund · The Vermont Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Clif Family Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Patagoniaorg · Henry P Kendall Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable 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 Fresh Sound Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships — 100% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Food Connects — 15% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Fresh Sound Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fresh Sound Foundation Inc 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 86 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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