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Island Farm Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$403kFood & Nutrition$116kAnimals$96kPhilanthropy$75kInternational$68kArts & Culture$60kEducation$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY$30,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$15,000
THE PRINT CENTER$10,000
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$10,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GREEN HEART PROJECT INC$5,000
ISLAND CLUB$5,000
SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM$2,500
THE MUTUAL AID SUDAN COALITION$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $125k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $100k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $100k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $50k → 12%PAY IT FORWARD CHARLESTON: $5k → 12%PAY IT FORWARD CHARLESTON: $5k → 12%PAY IT FORWARD CHARLESTON: $5k → 12%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MO
SC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$758k · 12 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$758k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalEducationOther
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

  • EC
    East Cooper Community Outreach
    4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +31%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +11%
  • CA
    CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $69k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • DA
    DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • YO
    YMCA OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
2
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
3
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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4
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
7
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Charleston Legal Access

To expand access to legal representation and rights in South Carolina.

Crime & Legal
10
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
11
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
12
Museum of the New South Inc

Levine Museum's mission is to connect the past to the future to realize the promises of a New South through exhibits that explore complex chapters in the region's history and programs that launch dialogue, foster empathy, and build an…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

East Cooper Community Outreach: $375,000 · Human ServicesEast Cooper Community OutreachPay it Forward Charleston: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $106,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCDONOR ADVISED FUND: $25,000 · OtherDONOR ADVISED FUNDEast Cooper Habitat for Humanity Inc: $23,000 · OtherEast Cooper Habitat for Human…YMCA OF THE ROCKIES: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherTHE PRINT CENTER: $10,000 · OtherICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $15,000 · OtherICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INCGreen Heart Project Inc: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $27,500 · Other+7 moreCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $68,500 · AnimalsCHARLESTON…South Carolina Aquarium: $20,000 · AnimalsSouth Caro…International Rescue Committee INC: $45,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNew York University: $20,000 · Education
Human Services$400,000Other$239,000Animals$88,500International$70,000Philanthropy$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $375,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $106,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $68,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Cooper Habitat for Humanity Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPay it Forward Charleston: $15,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROCKIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT VOTER FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN LAND LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Island Farm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Island Farm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Island Farm Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Island Farm Foundation 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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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