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Kentfields Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.0MEnvironment$3.8MYouth Development$483kFood & Nutrition$380kRecreation & Sports$335kHealth$268kArts & Culture$264kCommunity Improvement$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wesleyan University$500,000
BLUE WATER BALTIMORE$225,000
BRIDGES BALTIMORE$106,667
ALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC$100,000
PARKS & PEOPLE Foundation INc$85,000
DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY$80,000
MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION F$80,000
PENNFUTURE$75,000
OUTDOOR EQUITY ALLIANCE$75,000
VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM DBA THE$70,000
ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT$70,000
CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE$60,000
THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM$60,000
BACKYARD BASECAMP INC$60,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MERCER COUNTY$60,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%PennFuture: $100k → 12%DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $80k → 13%Wesleyan University: $2.0M → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MERCER COUNTY: $60k → 11%Chesapeake Bay Foundation: $100k → 6%ShoreRivers Inc: $125k → 10%Backyard Basecamp Inc: $75k → 19%PENNFUTURE: $75k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $70k → 14%Wesleyan University: $500k → 7%Chesapeake Bay Foundation: $100k → 6%ShoreRivers Inc: $100k → 10%Backyard Basecamp Inc: $75k → 19%ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $70k → 14%Wesleyan University: $500k → 7%CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE: $60k → 6%BACKYARD BASECAMP INC: $60k → 19%Environmental Integrity Project: $70k → 14%Chesapeake Legal Alliance: $55k → 6%The Boys School of Saint Paul's Parish: $167k → 11%Environmental Integrity Project: $70k → 14%CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE: $55k → 6%THE BOYS SCHOOL OF SAINT PAUL'S PARISH: $167k → 11%THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $55k → 11%Chesapeake Legal Alliance: $55k → 6%The Watershed Institute: $55k → 11%BLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $225k → 19%ALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC: $100k → 6%Blue Water Baltimore: $150k → 19%Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education F: $80k → 6%Blue Water Baltimore: $150k → 19%Chesapeake Commons: $55k → 14%OUTDOOR EQUITY ALLIANCE: $75k → 11%MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION F: $80k → 6%BLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $75k → 19%Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education F: $75k → 6%ReBUILD Metro: $85k → 19%ST PAUL'S SCHOOL BRIDGES: $70k → 19%VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM DBA THE: $70k → 19%ST PAUL'S SCHOOL BRIDGES: $65k → 19%The 6th Branch: $55k → 19%PARKS & PEOPLE Foundation INc: $85k → 19%PARKS & PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 19%Parks & People Foundation Inc: $75k → 19%Parks & People Foundation Inc: $75k → 19%Bridges Baltimore: $167k → 19%BRIDGES BALTIMORE: $107k → 19%THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $60k → 19%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

ME
VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
NC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 46 repeat orgs$576k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
26

Total granted

$9.4M
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +36%
  • BW
    BLUE WATER BALTIMORE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +12%
  • PA
    PARKS AND PEOPLE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $310k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Nature Conservancy PennsylvaniaDelaware Chapt
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k
  • LF
    LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -9%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +20%
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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
3
The Potomac Conservancy Inc

Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.

Environment
4
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
5
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
6
Delaware Nature Society Inc

Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.

Environment
7
Baltimore Tree Trust Inc

To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.

Environment
8
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 78 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $3,015,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC: $273,334 · EducationBRIDGES BALTIMORE INCBackyard Basecamp Inc: $260,000 · EducationBackyard Basecamp Inc+4 more: $57,600 · EducationBLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $600,000 · EnvironmentBLUE WATER BALTIMOREMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND INC: $285,000 · EnvironmentMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS E…ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $280,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECTSHORERIVERS INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentSHORERIVERS INCCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC: $225,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INCCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INCCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: $203,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTUREINTERFAITH PARTNERS FOR THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $199,877 · EnvironmentINTERFAITH PARTNERS FOR THE CHESAPEAKE I…DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $160,000 · EnvironmentTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $160,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $140,000 · EnvironmentGREENER PARTNERS: $120,000 · EnvironmentPOCONO HERITAGE LAND TRUST: $120,000 · Environment+13 more: $580,934 · Environment+13 moreTHE BOYS SCHOOL OF SAINT PAULS PARISH INC: $333,334 · OtherTHE BOYS SCHOOL OF S…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL BRIDGES: $276,500 · OtherST PAUL'S SCHOOL BRI…THE COMMONS INC: $205,000 · OtherTHE COMMONS INCTHE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $182,000 · OtherTHE WALTERS ART MUSE…The 6th Branch: $140,000 · OtherThe 6th BranchIndividual grant recipient: $132,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Alliance for Chesapeake Bay: $100,000 · OtherAlliance for Chesape…REBUILD METRO INC: $95,000 · OtherTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $70,000 · Other+25 more: $299,751 · Other+25 morePARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $310,000 · Recreation & SportsINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $160,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $45,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $13,333 · HealthOutdoor Equity Alliance: $100,000 · Food & NutritionFARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC: $95,000 · Food & NutritionSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $22,500 · Food & NutritionBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $210,000 · Youth Development
Education$3,605,934Environment$3,558,811Other$1,833,585Recreation & Sports$310,000Health$248,333Food & Nutrition$217,500Youth Development$210,000

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 budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $3,015,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $600,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $310,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND INC: $285,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $280,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $275,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBRIDGES BALTIMORE INC: $273,334 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBackyard Basecamp Inc: $260,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC: $225,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $210,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COMMONS INC: $205,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: $203,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetINTERFAITH PARTNERS FOR THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $199,877 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $160,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $160,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $160,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $140,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS: $120,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetPOCONO HERITAGE LAND TRUST: $120,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetBALTIMORE GREEN SPACE: $110,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOutdoor Equity Alliance: $100,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC: $95,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetREBUILD METRO INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSustainable Woodstock Inc: $67,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $53,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $48,868 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCIVIC WORKS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWhite River Partnership Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetKucetekela Foundation: $22,800 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetD&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetISLES INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADELANTE LATINA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN WORKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAsylee Women Enterprise Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …France-Merrick Founda…The Keith Campbell Fo…Clayton Baker TrustThe Morris Goldseker …Chesapeake Bay TrustAnnie E Casey Foundat…National Fish and Wil…T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…The Marion I & Henry …
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD42.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Clayton Baker Trust · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Defensores De La Cuenca: 100% of income from government
  • Open Works Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Civic Works Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Asylee Women Enterprise Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
  • D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc: 5% of income from government
  • White River Partnership Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Students 2 Science Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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 Kentfields Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kentfields 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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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