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John W Plansoen Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISITING NURSE ASSN HOSPICE FDN | $100,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT CALDWELL | $55,000 |
| NEW PROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $55,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF VERONA | $55,000 |
| GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $49,500 |
| INDIAN RIVER COTY VOLUNTEER AMBUL SQUAD | $10,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MAMASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC3× · 2017–2023 · $192k · revenue +90%
- EFELAWA FARM FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +188%
- AAANIMAL AID INC3× · 2020–2022 · $85k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- STSHILOH TABERNACLE MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $75k
- VNVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $70k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $55k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Hollins university is an independent liberal arts university dedicated to academic excellence and humane values. hollins university offers undergraduate liberal arts education for women, selected graduate programs for men and women, and…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The school's mission is to provide chilren of the community with an outstanding jewish and secular education that will equip the students with the tools neccessary to pursue studies in any higher educational institution. students are in a…
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Indian River Countyinc and the most unlike its peers is Elawa Farm Foundation. 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.
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 47 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds The CROYA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds VERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Louis Plansoen Fdn Co-Ttee · Louis M Plansoen Char Tr U10th Par · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Sad Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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 John W Plansoen Trust 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.
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
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.
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