How much did HIGGINS FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of HIGGINS FAMILY 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

2019

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2020

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2021

little comptonway

2022

play ballartmuseumlittle compton

2023

ptsalittle compton

2024

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2025

theatercompton wellnesslittle compton

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

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $11k
$10k–50k8 grants · $104k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$21,000
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB$20,000
TAM HIGH PTSA$13,200
SCHOLARSHIP LITTLE COMPTON$10,000
URIFAE$10,000
THE PUBLIC THEATER$10,000
UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC$10,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - RI CHAPTER$10,000
GOLF FIGHTS CANCER$2,500
FAU OLLI JUPITER$2,000
NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST$1,500
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE$1,500
WRJC FIRST COAST SOCIETY$1,200
THE LEARNING ALLIANCE$1,000
HOPEHEALTH CARE HOSPICE$500

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 (FY19–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$511k · 25 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$511k

$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%

+52%

Still filing today

32%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

LC
LITTLE COMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER
3× · 2021–2023 · $71k · revenue +104%
MT
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB
6× · 2018–2024 · $69k · revenue +10%
SL
SCHOLARSHIP LITTLE COMPTON
3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +1%

Funded once

SP
SAKONNET PRESERVATION ASSOC INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +90%
SOPHIA ACADEMY
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -6%
FL
FAMILY LEGAL CAREgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +44%

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.

Wilton Land Conservation Trust

PROTECTING, ENHANCING AND CONSERVING open spaces encompassing MEADOWS, WOODLANDS, AND WATERWAYS IN THE town of Wilton CT.

Environment

The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture

Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture

Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture

Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to community.

Arts & Culture

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

Land conservation in nantucket, massachusetts

Environment

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Theaterworks Inc

Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Theater Company

To provide opportunities for the community to create and experience live performances in ways for all to be proud of and enjoy along with educational programs.

Arts & Culture

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

The utah museum of contemporary art believes in the power of the art of our time. through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.

Arts & Culture

Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc

Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.

Environment

Maine Media College

Maine Media College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Museum of Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Museum of Contemporary Art. 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.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/29

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,536

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.

05the grantee network

28 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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

23/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$339,446Arts & Culture$95,972Philanthropy$95,000Recreation & Sports$73,000Education$22,500Human Services$13,000International$2,500

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 Rhode Island Community FoundationRI18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Community Foundation For · Mutual of America Foundation · Mussafer Family Foundation · Weatherlow Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 HIGGINS FAMILY 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

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: LITTLE COMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 050465899 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 LITTLE COMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% 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 Higgins Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Higgins Family 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.

HIGGINS FAMILY 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

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Higgins Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HIGGINS FAMILY 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

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Higgins Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph