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Friendship Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$16k
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.

Environment$350kArts & Culture$293kHuman Services$186kEducation$167kHealth$94kCommunity Improvement$79kReligion$60kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$3,750
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECO-CYCLE INC$15,700
THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC$12,500
AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION (DBA AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE)$6,000
METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE INC$5,800
PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH$5,666
PEACE OVER VIOLENCE$5,200
BARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION USA$5,000
WAQUOIT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$5,000
ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC$5,000
CATAWBA LANDS CONSERVANCY$5,000
FOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA (FOSA)$5,000
COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC$5,000
FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES - HARMONY PROJECT BAY AREA$4,800
CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF SCIENCE INC$4,566
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA: $2k → 13%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $8k → 11%FRASIER MEADOWS MANOR INC: $2k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH: $6k → 22%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%MID PINES FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $14k → 16%FRASIER MEADOWS MANOR INC: $2k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH: $6k → 22%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $7k → 16%FRASIER MEADOWS MANOR INC: $2k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH: $6k → 22%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $4k → 14%FRASIER MEADOWS MANOR INC: $1k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH: $6k → 22%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH: $4k → 22%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH: $3k → 22%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 7%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 7%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%PARTNERSHIP FOR SMARTER GROWTH: $2k → 22%SECOND WIND FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $8k → 7%SOUTH COUNTY HOME HEALTH: $5k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $5k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $4k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $4k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $4k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $4k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $3k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $3k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $3k → 7%SOUTH COUNTY HOME HEALTH: $2k → 7%CANE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 7%CANE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 7%CANE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 7%CANE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 7%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
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 94 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
64

Total granted

$1.3M
$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

77%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • T3
    THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +70%
  • FS
    FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $39k · revenue +33%
  • EI
    ECO-CYCLE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • HE
    HOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • T
    TreesCharlottegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +52%

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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
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
3
The Commons Inc

To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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4
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
5
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
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
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
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
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
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
11
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
12
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives and the most unlike its peers is Shields Valley Foundation 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…Local Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportPublic Library OperationsSenior Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/136
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,429

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

128 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. 128 of the 164 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/128
Grantees still filing
85/128
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC — $39,000 · OtherFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INCWOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC — $37,134 · OtherWOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC — $37,000 · OtherTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INCPEACE OVER VIOLENCE — $30,950 · OtherST PAUL'S ON THE GREEN — $27,166 · OtherFLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherHOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC — $25,000 · Other+80 more — $466,677 · Other+80 moreTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC — $42,305 · EnvironmentTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAN…ECO-CYCLE INC — $38,975 · EnvironmentECO-CYCLE INCASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $37,000 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION TO PRESER…AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $25,600 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUN…Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $23,650 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wildern…GREEN FORESTS WORK INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentGREEN FORESTS WORK IN…FINGER LAKES REUSE INC — $13,800 · EnvironmentSCENIC VIRGINIA INC — $12,334 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA — $10,500 · Environment+11 more — $64,225 · Environment+11 moreWOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $37,736 · EducationWOODS HOLE PU…CHILDRENS SCHOOL OF SCIENCE INC — $26,821 · EducationCHILDRENS SCH…Thaddeus Stevens School — $25,300 · EducationThaddeus Stev…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $19,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …Harmony Project — $16,034 · EducationHarmony Proje…REALITY CHANGERS — $14,000 · EducationREALITY CHANG…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $12,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC — $9,500 · Education+6 more — $19,067 · Education+6 morePartnership for Smarter Growth — $40,498 · Human ServicesPartnership…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC — $35,750 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VI…SECOND WIND FOUNDATION — $23,050 · Human ServicesSECOND WIND…BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEAL…NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS RHODE ISLAND — $8,250 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC — $7,600 · Human ServicesSOUTH COUNTY HOME HEALTH — $6,500 · Human ServicesFRASIER MEADOWS MANOR INC — $5,700 · Human Services+5 more — $12,750 · Human Services+5 moreTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $31,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUN…METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE INC — $23,400 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLIS…BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC — $17,750 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY S…FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC — $12,325 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF…BERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $12,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY S…Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra — $9,350 · Arts & CultureColorado S…EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY — $8,300 · Arts & CultureEAST BAY P…BARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA) — $7,300 · Arts & CultureCONTINUUM CULTURE & ARTS INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $11,116 · Arts & Culture+5 moreBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,340 · HealthSOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM — $8,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC — $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,000 · HealthDAY ONE — $4,200 · HealthSAVE A WARRIOR INC — $3,250 · HealthTHE CHRIS COLLINS FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · HealthWOOD RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $2,250 · HealthNATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS COALITION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 · Health+2 more — $2,000 · HealthEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $13,000 · Civil RightsRISE INC — $12,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $6,250 · Civil RightsPride St Louis Inc — $4,500 · Civil Rights
Other$692,927Environment$300,389Education$179,708Human Services$160,598Arts & Culture$137,541Health$45,540Civil Rights$35,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC — $42,305 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPartnership for Smarter Growth — $40,498 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC — $39,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetECO-CYCLE INC — $38,975 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $37,736 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetWOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC — $37,134 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $37,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC — $37,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC — $35,750 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $31,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetPEACE OVER VIOLENCE — $30,950 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS SCHOOL OF SCIENCE INC — $26,821 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $25,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThaddeus Stevens School — $25,300 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetHOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $23,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLIS ENSEMBLE INC — $23,400 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSECOND WIND FOUNDATION — $23,050 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN FORESTS WORK INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAROLINA THREAD TRAIL — $19,160 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC — $18,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC — $17,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC — $16,750 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetHarmony Project — $16,034 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS — $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFINGER LAKES REUSE INC — $13,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHORAL SOCIETY — $13,750 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC — $12,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSCENIC VIRGINIA INC — $12,334 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC — $12,325 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $12,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRISE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CYBER SAFETY AND EDUCATION — $11,850 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA — $10,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $10,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreesCharlotte — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS — $9,550 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC — $9,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetColorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra — $9,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $9,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 9y, 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 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for Smarter Growth ↗
  • Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ECO-CYCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE OVER VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS SCHOOL OF SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Thaddeus Stevens School ↗
  • Who funds HOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND WIND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SEABURY ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN FORESTS WORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Project ↗
  • Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
  • Who funds FINGER LAKES REUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SCENIC VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC ↗

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 Rhode Island Comm…Cape Cod Foundation I…Stanley W Watson Foun…Esther Simon 1952 Cha…United Way of Rhode I…Harken FoundationJosephine and Louise …Martha's Vineyard Ban…Cape Cod Five Cents S…The Champlin Foundati…Woods Hole Foundation…George H Lusk Trust
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI25.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Harken Foundation · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Woods Hole Foundation Inc · George H Lusk Trust

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 Friendship Fund 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 · 90%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Second Wind Foundation — 85% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Atlantic Public Media Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Fairfield County Chorale Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
39report 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.

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How do I get to Friendship Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Friendship Fund 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 164 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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