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J Owen Todd Charitable Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k10 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS$10,000
PROJECT ADVENTURE$5,000
HAWK$5,000
SAINT ANN'S HOME$5,000
WEDIKO CHILDRENS SERVICES$5,000
RICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDRENS CENTER$5,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS$5,000
THE WOMENS CENTER$3,500
COMPASS SCHOOL$2,500
CONNECTICUT BURN CARE FOUNDATION$2,500
CHILDRENS ROOM$1,500
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 (FY17–17, $10k) 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%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 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.
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 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
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

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3
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

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4
Cutchins Programs for Children & Families Inc

To help children and families transform significant emotional distress into increased resilience, hope and quality of life. to support the healing and learning process with innovation and integrity, and to serve as a model for best and…

Health
5
The Open Center for Children Inc

Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…

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6
Northeast Center for Youth and Families Inc

Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.

Human Services
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Watch Them Grow Childcare Center

Watch Them Grow Children's Center's mission is to provide the highest quality care at an affordable rate for the families in our community. We strive to offer as many educational opportunities as possible for the early childhood and school…

Human Services
9
Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc

Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.

Human Services
10
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
11
The Children's Center of Brookline and Greater Boston Inc

To provide quality daycare and early childhood education to families of brookline and greater boston.

Education
12
Harwood Center Inc

Harwood center inc. exists to enable children with special needs to reach their full potential. harwood center provides early intervention therapy services to children diagnosed with developmental disabilities within the age range of 18…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home for Little Wanderers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Richie Mcfarland Children's Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5,000 · OtherRICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTERPROJECT ADVENTURE INC: $5,000 · OtherPROJECT ADVENTURE INCHAWK: $5,000 · OtherHAWKSAINT ANN'S HOME: $5,000 · OtherSAINT ANN'S HOMEWEDIKO CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · OtherWEDIKO CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $3,500 · OtherNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INCCOMPASS SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherCOMPASS SCHOOLCONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · OtherCONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INCTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDER…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $1,500 · Human ServicesThe Childrens Room Center …BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBEVERLY BOO…
Other$33,500Human Services$11,500Community Improvement$5,000

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 budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEDIKO CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 J Owen Todd Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Owen Todd Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Project Adventure Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 J Owen Todd Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J Owen Todd Charitable 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 11 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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