How much did FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

theater

2019

theater

2020

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2021

—

2022

—

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k6 grants · $75k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC$20,000
LEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND$15,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
ON STAGE INC$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE$10,000
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC$10,000
ACTORS STUDIO OF NEWBURYPORT$5,000
FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION$5,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$534k · 11 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$534k

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

Still filing today

45%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +78%
YA
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MASSACHUSETTS
8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +21%
AS
ACTORS STUDIO OF NEWBURYPORT
8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +18%

Funded once

BR
BALLET RIgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +42%
SOPHIA ACADEMY
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -6%
CF
CHILDREN'S FRIEND
one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

ArtBarn Community Theater Inc

To provide a warm and creative after school and summer program for children from pre-school through high school. All students are active participants in all aspects of the productions.

Arts & Culture

Arts Academy of New Hampshire

Granite state arts academy's educational mission is to nurture creative thinkers, active citizens, and independent learners with a curriculum that integrates the arts and academics.

Education

The New England Youth Theater Inc

Neyt provides professional training and production experience in theatre arts to young people of all abilities by engaging their intellects, bodies and imaginations in the creative endeavor.

Youth Development

Providence CityArts for Youth Inc

Provide an environment that encourages the exploration and development of artistic talents of youth in the multi-cultural neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island.

Youth Development

Arts Live Theatre Inc

Arts Live Theatres mission is to empower children and enrich lives through excellence in childrens theatre and education.

Arts & Culture

Young Dancers in Repertory Inc

The mission of Young Dancers in Repertory, Inc. (YDR) is to provide professional training that fosters growth and communication through dance via creative educational arts programming and performances for children, youth and general public.

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Academy of Performing Arts Inc

The academy of performing arts is an innovative theatrical venue for hands-on learning, creativity, and entertainment for the cape cod community.

Arts & Culture

Rhode Island Youth Theatre

Rhode island youth theatre is a non-profit educational theatre company that provides opportunites for youth to explore their interests and develop their theatre skills.

Arts & Culture

Community Art Center Inc

To cultivate an engaged community of youth whose powerful artistic voices transform their lives, their neighborhoods and their worlds.

Human Services

Developing Artists Theaters Company Inc

Developing Artists (DA) challenges teens to combine rigorous performing arts training with ensemble based philosophy to create original work that inspires social change.

Arts & Culture

Stage Center

Stage Center has a mission to produce plays and musicals for professionals and students alike, It also teaches acting, dancing and voice in addition to taking the theater arts to disadvantaged youth.

Unclassified

Broadway Arts Lab Company

The BROADWAY ARTS LAB mission is providing a safe environment for young people to explore their unique and individual talents, through the medium of live theater, specifically acting, singing, dancing and music. Imagination, creativity,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cranston West Alumni Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/11

Grantees still filing

8/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$304,500Arts & Culture$189,000Human Services$89,500Education$20,000Youth Development$20,000

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation FRIENDSHIP 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ACTORS STUDIO OF NEWBURYPORT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 261473110 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ACTORS STUDIO OF NEWBURYPORT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Friendship Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Friendship Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Friendship Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Friendship Foundation?

More from the funding graph