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Haven Trust at a glance

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Haven Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$162kHealth$39kEnvironment$21kEducation$15kInternational$13kRecreation & Sports$12kPhilanthropy$5kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WATERMAN'S COMMUNITY CENTER$125,000
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES: $200 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 16%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

ME
NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177k · 20 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
83

Total granted

$177k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+39%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WC
    Watermans Community Center
    3× · 2020–2023 · $126k · revenue +129%
  • ST
    SAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +101%
  • NH
    North Haven Historical Society
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TI
    THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +39%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
2
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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3
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
4
Maine Maritime Museum

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

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
11
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
12
The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust

Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Sherborn Rural Land Foundation. 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

72 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. 72 of the 104 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
63/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Watermans Community Center: $126,200 · PhilanthropyWatermans Community Center+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $17,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALTHOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND: $12,000 · OtherTHOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUNDNorth Haven Historical Society: $5,500 · OtherNorth Haven Historical SocietyHANDS ACROSS THE SEA: $5,500 · OtherHANDS ACROSS THE SEAFOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASE: $5,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INFLAMM…UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $5,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTSMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $5,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL - DR COLEY - WANG AMBULATORY CARE: $5,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL - DR…ASSOC BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,000 · Other+45 more: $26,400 · Other+45 moreCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSHERBORN COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $800 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $4,050 · Arts & CultureSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentVINALHAVEN LAND TRUST INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,000 · EnvironmentSHERBORN RURAL LAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Environment+8 more: $2,700 · EnvironmentMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationWALKER INC: $2,200 · EducationTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationPROCTOR ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $525 · EducationNorth Bennet Street School: $500 · Education+3 more: $450 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $1,000 · HealthPulpit Harbor Foundation: $300 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP: $500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $250 · International+1 more: $200 · International
Philanthropy$126,700Other$89,400Arts & Culture$19,850Environment$19,700Education$11,675Health$8,300International$6,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWatermans Community Center: $126,200 over 3y, 11% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVINALHAVEN LAND TRUST INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Haven Historical Society: $5,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWALKER INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERBORN RURAL LAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSHERBORN COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HAVEN LIBRARY: $600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HAVEN CONSERVATION PARTNERS: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Middlecott FoundationBoston Foundation IncHighland Street Conne…Maine Community Found…Eastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Fidelity FoundationAmelia Peabody Charit…E & L Campbell Family…The Henry Sears Found…Strypemonde FoundationThe Dudley H and Sall…
Middlecott FoundationMA53.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Middlecott Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · E & L Campbell Family Foundation · The Henry Sears Foundation Inc · Strypemonde Foundation · The Dudley H and Sally S Willis Charitable 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 Haven Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Haven Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Paul Revere Memorial Association: 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
5report 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
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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How do I get to Haven Trust?

Find your warmest path to Haven Trust 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 104 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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