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Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$328k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$2.2MArts & Culture$1.4MScience & Tech$771kHuman Services$476kYouth Development$327kHousing & Shelter$293kHealth$241kEducation$223kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $263k
  • $250k+3 grants · $898k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY$327,500
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$320,000
CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIED DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER$250,517
TRUSTEES$127,500
THE SHARE TRUST$75,525
MARTIN'S HOUSE & BARN$60,237
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION$29,517
RAWKSTARS INC$29,000
FRIENDS OF EASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
ACADEMY ART MUSEUM$7,500
MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,100
YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE$5,100
TILGHMAN WATERMAN'S MUSEUM$3,750
THE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC$3,500
FOR ALL SEASONS$3,200
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 (FY20–24, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $41k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $41k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%THE BARKER FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%UPPER SHORE AGING: $100 → 12%UPPER SHORE AGING: $100 → 12%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $20k → 7%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%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.

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.
$5.7M · 46 repeat orgs$550k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
23

Total granted

$5.7M
$509k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+5%

Still filing today

72%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +78%
  • CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +214% · 26% of their budget
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $771k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -15%
  • AM
    ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • HO
    HISTORIC OXFORD LIMITED
    one grant, 2023 · $30k

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
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

—
2
Cape Ann Museum Inc

To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…

Arts & Culture
3
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

—
4
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
5
Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc

To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.

Arts & Culture
6
Chesapeake Charities Inc

The mission of chesapeake charities, inc. is to provide innovative leadership and quality services that encourage charitable giving, build community resources, and enable donors continued on schedule o

Philanthropy
7
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
8
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
9
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.

Arts & Culture
10
Camden Shipyard Maritime Museum

To educate the world about camden's rich maritime heritage and significant contributions to global shipbuilding and seafaring exploration.

Arts & Culture
11
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
12
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rawkstars 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 backsteadyCommunity Performing Arts C…Youth Academic EnrichmentFraternal Service LodgesFraternity and Sorority Org…Anne Arundel County Communi…Philanthropic Funding Organ…Healthcare Systems & Medica…K-8 Schools and Academic Su…Professional Trade Associat…
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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr19%47%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,792

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

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 76 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $1,380,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INCCHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY — $250,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETYTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $130,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONSEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $66,000 · Environment+2 more — $80,021 · EnvironmentCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER — $1,000,517 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF ME…CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $100,300 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME…RAWKSTARS INC — $81,200 · Arts & CultureRAWKSTARS INCNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC — $49,767 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $70,055 · Arts & Culture+8 moreSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC — $281,542 · OtherSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES …CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $260,100 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUSTFOR ALL SEASONS INC — $210,500 · OtherFOR ALL SEASONS INCYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $105,100 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO…ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · OtherThe Barker Adoption Foundation — $132,500 · OtherThe Barker Adoption Found…MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS (MIP) INC — $150,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE F…MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $51,800 · Other+38 more — $194,260 · Other+38 moreWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $770,500 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OC…MID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC — $201,681 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $180,768 · EducationWYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · Education+4 more — $24,175 · EducationTALBOT MENTORSINC — $317,136 · Youth Development+2 more — $2,650 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHARE TRUST INC — $177,050 · International
Environment$1,907,021Arts & Culture$1,301,839Other$1,435,802Science & Tech$770,500Education$426,624Youth Development$319,786International$177,050

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 budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $1,380,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER — $1,000,517 over 3y, 26% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $770,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTALBOT MENTORSINC — $317,136 over 3y, 14% of budgetSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC — $281,542 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST — $260,100 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCHESAPEAKE AUDUBON SOCIETY — $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOR ALL SEASONS INC — $210,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMID-SHORE EARLY LEARNING CTR INC — $201,681 over 4y, 44% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $180,768 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHARE TRUST INC — $177,050 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS (MIP) INC — $150,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetThe Barker Adoption Foundation — $132,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $130,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $105,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $100,300 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRAWKSTARS INC — $81,200 over 3y, 73% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $66,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDOVER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST — $55,021 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $51,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC — $49,767 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANNEL MARKER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF EASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe Zullo Gallery Center For The Arts Charitable Trust — $22,605 over 5y, 27% of budgetMEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD — $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetWYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $15,200 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $13,075 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC — $11,850 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTILGHMAN WATERMEN'S MUSEUM INC — $3,750 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE PINE STREET COMMITTEE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDOVER-SHERBORN GRIDIRON CLUB INC — $3,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetEASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTON ROTARY CLUB YOUTH AND COMMUNITY FUND INC — $2,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC — $650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $513 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRASS ROOTS CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAllegro Academy Inc — $500 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Mid Shore Community F…Dock Street FoundationThe Llandaff Family T…The Seip Family Found…Watson Stone Family F…Richard J and Ellen G…Ruth and Robert St Jo…T & M Mitchell Fdn Di…Clark Charitable Foun…Van Strum Foundation …The Rosenfeld Rumford…The Robert Wood Johns…
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD52.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Van Strum Foundation 8833023 · The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson 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 Grayce B Kerr 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 · 220%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
  • Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Upper Shore Aging Inc — 24% of income from government
  • For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Medfield Food Cupboard — 6% of income from government
  • Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Washington College — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Grayce B Kerr 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 76 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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