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Leaves of Grass Fund

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
132
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.9MInternational$1.7MEnvironment$1.7MCivil Rights$1.1MEducation$845kHuman Services$748kPublic Benefit$734kOther$0
02FY2024 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k82 grants · $313k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $715k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $580k
$5,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$150,000
CEDARS SINAI HOSPITAL$100,000
ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL$60,000
ACLU NATIONAL$60,000
FAIR ELECTION CENTER$60,000
MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST$50,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL DR MELISSA FREY RESEARCH$50,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$35,000
FOODBANK FOR NYC$30,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$30,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$30,000
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT$26,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL (naral)$25,000
BOWERY MISSION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $612k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $15k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $10k → 12%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $25k → 7%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $15k → 12%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $20k → 7%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $8k → 17%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $5k → 12%REFUGEE DREAM CENTER: $5k → 14%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $12k → 7%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $6k → 8%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $12k → 7%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $5k → 8%NatioNAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $4k → 12%REFUGEE DREAM CENTER: $5k → 14%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $12k → 7%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $4k → 8%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $8k → 7%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $4k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $15k → 7%SPRINGWELL: $76k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $30k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $26k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $12k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $12k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $11k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL: $10k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $8k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $7k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $6k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $5k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
DC
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 200 repeat orgs$858k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

200 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

200
55

Total granted

$12M
$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+23%

Still filing today

70%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +81%
  • MA
    MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $409k · revenue +33%
  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $346k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • PA
    PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD UNIV
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • SI
    SPRINGWELL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $76k · revenue +190%
  • ST
    SPREAD THE VOTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -75%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
7
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
12
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersFaith-Based Social ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Youth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/200
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,365

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.

04the grantee network

195 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. 195 of the 279 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
194/195
Grantees still filing
134/195
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $650,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDCEDARS SINAI HOSPITAL — $400,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE — $400,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $328,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $302,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $345,500 · OtherBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $301,000 · Other+113 more — $4,818,250 · Other+113 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,308,000 · InternationalInternational Re…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $112,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL ME…WATERAID AMERICA INC — $89,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $73,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $70,000 · International+10 more — $252,250 · International+10 moreCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $143,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVAT…EARTHJUSTICE — $133,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUST…WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $115,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEP…OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $92,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CON…RIVERKEEPER INC — $91,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEP…Coastal Mountains Land Trust — $74,000 · EnvironmentCoastal M…RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $57,000 · EnvironmentRAINFORES…Environmental Law Institute — $45,000 · EnvironmentAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $37,000 · Environment+14 more — $265,000 · Environment+14 moreGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $141,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $129,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC — $97,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGWELL INC — $75,533 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $61,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $57,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $26,000 · Human Services+4 more — $56,500 · Human ServicesMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $409,000 · Food & NutritionWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $155,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $48,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $30,000 · Food & NutritionPART OF THE SOLUTION — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $49,000 · Food & NutritionFair Elections Center — $255,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $108,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $52,500 · Civil RightsROCK THE VOTE — $41,500 · Civil RightsSPREAD THE VOTE INC — $40,000 · Civil RightsPrison Policy Initiative — $36,000 · Civil RightsFreedom for Immigrants — $34,000 · Civil RightsUS VOTE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsNonprofit VOTE Inc — $24,500 · Civil Rights+2 more — $22,000 · Civil RightsBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $80,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $75,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationCROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $22,000 · Education
Other$7,545,250International$1,904,750Environment$1,053,000Human Services$734,533Food & Nutrition$716,000Civil Rights$668,500Education$412,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,308,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $409,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $345,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $328,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $301,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFair Elections Center — $255,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $155,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC — $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $143,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $141,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $133,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $129,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER — $115,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $115,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $112,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $108,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC — $97,000 over 8y, 60% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $92,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $92,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $91,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL — $90,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC — $89,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $84,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC — $75,533 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $74,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $73,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS IN NEED — $72,000 over 8y, 36% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC — $67,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $67,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC — $61,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $61,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $59,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMake the Road New York — $57,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $57,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $57,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $52,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE — $51,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetEarthworks — $51,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $48,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE 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.

Boston Foundation IncThe New York Communit…Rsf Social Finance IncSilicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Give Lively Foundatio…Conrad N Hilton Found…The Ford FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…New Venture FundMarty and Dorothy Sil…
Boston Foundation IncMA26.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · New Venture Fund · Marty and Dorothy Silverman 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 Leaves of Grass Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Margarita Muniz Academy Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Leaves of Grass Fund?

Find your warmest path to Leaves of Grass Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 279 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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