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John W Plansoen Trust at a glance

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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.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$936kEducation$322kHealth$200kYouth Development$110kAnimals$109kArts & Culture$106kFood & Nutrition$105kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
$55,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISITING NURSE ASSN HOSPICE FDN$100,000
NEW PROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$55,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT CALDWELL$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC: $13k → 12%ARC INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $10k → 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

IL
MI
MA
PA
NJ
TN
NC
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 16 repeat orgs$577k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$1.4M
$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+8%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MA
    MASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $192k · revenue +90%
  • EF
    ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +188%
  • GT
    Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $85k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • ST
    SHILOH TABERNACLE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
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
Florida College Inc

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
2
Rollins College

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…

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
4
Illinois College

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…

Education
5
Hollins University Corporation

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…

Education
6
Evangel University

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.

Education
7
Greenville College

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.

Education
8
Georgetown College

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…

Education
9
Lake Forest College

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…

Education
10
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
11
Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc

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…

Education
12
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Indian River Countyinc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT CALDWELL: $150,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT CALDWELLFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT: $108,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ATFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF VERONA: $105,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF VERONATHE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT NEW PROVIDENCE: $105,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT NEW PROVIDENCEGIDEONS INTERNATIONAL: $81,500 · OtherGIDEONS INTERNATIONALYOUTH FOR CHRIST INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $75,000 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINCSHILOH TABERNACLE MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 · OtherSHILOH TABERNACLE MINISTRIES INCVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · OtherVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONCHRIST BY THE SEA UNITED METHODIST: $66,250 · OtherCHRIST BY THE SEA UNITED METHODISTFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $52,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $50,000 · Other+3 more: $48,750 · OtherMASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC: $192,000 · EducationMASTER'S ACADEMY OF VE…Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $85,000 · EducationGordon-Conwell Theolog…HOPE COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationHOPE COLLEGEGORDON COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGEWHEATON COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Arts & CultureELAWA FAR…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE…VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $23,500 · Arts & CultureVERO BEAC…Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice Foundation Inc: $100,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthVERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC: $5,000 · HealthANIMAL AID INC: $85,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $15,000 · AnimalsThe CROYA Foundation Inc: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentINDIAN RIVER COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SQUAD INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,041,500Education$377,000Arts & Culture$158,500Health$125,000Animals$100,000Youth Development$80,000Human Services$53,000

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 budgetMASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC: $192,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association and Hospice Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL AID INC: $85,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe CROYA Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $75,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SQUAD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERONA RESCUE SQUAD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

Louis Plansoen Fdn Co…Louis M Plansoen Char…Indian River Communit…Archie S Wingfield Jr…The John's Island Fou…Sad Foundation IncThe Ayco Charitable F…The Bessemer Giving F…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Louis Plansoen Fdn Co-TteeMO28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John W Plansoen Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W Plansoen Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Gordon College: 1% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 John W Plansoen Trust?

Find your warmest path to John W Plansoen 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 32 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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