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Llhlhm Foundation Margaret Baird Trustee

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.

$295k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$298kHuman Services$162kInternational$120kCommunity Improvement$111kHealth$105kArts & Culture$65kEnvironment$46kCrime & Legal$18kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$462k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $290k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SELF-ESTEM$25,000
CIRCESTEEM THE CHICAGO YOUTH CIRCUS$20,000
HAMAKUA YOUTH FOUNDATION INC$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN$20,000
PREVENTION INSTITUTE$20,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$20,000
GLOBAL KIDS INC$20,000
GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE$20,000
WAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC$20,000
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC$20,000
DIRECT RELIEF$20,000
1ST PLACE FOR YOUTH$20,000
EARTH FORCE INC$15,000
DISCOVERY SCHOOL HOUSE$10,000
ECOLOGIC$10,000
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 (FY17–22, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $27k → 9%TURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $20k → 9%TURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $20k → 9%TURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $20k → 9%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

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
TX
FL

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$313k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
28

Total granted

$1.1M
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • GK
    GLOBAL KIDS INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +117%
  • BO
    BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +62%
  • WA
    WAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +319%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -22%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +44%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +26%

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
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
5
Rocky Mountain Institute

Transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.

6
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
7
Groundwork Rva Inc

Mission: to cultivate the next generation of urban conservationists in richmond, virginia. vision: groundwork rva works with richmond youth to increase environmental, economic, and social well-being in neighborhoods by transforming…

Community Improvement
8
Climate Catalyst Inc

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

Environment
9
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

10
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
11
Chemists Without Borders

Chemists without borders is a global humanitarian organization committed to sustainable and equitable solutions that empower communities and improve overall well-being. our strategic framework is: service - developing, facilitating, and…

Science & Tech
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Living Observatory Inc. 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 …Youth Sports ProgramsAddiction Recovery ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsYouth Development Services
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%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,522

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

42 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CIRCESTEEM THE CHICAGO YOUTH CIRCUS — $108,000 · OtherCIRCESTEEM THE CHICAGO YOUTH CIRCUSSELF-ESTEM — $80,000 · OtherSELF-ESTEMIndividual grant recipient — $61,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientECOLOGIC — $26,100 · Other1ST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $20,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC — $20,000 · Other+28 more — $228,500 · Other+28 moreGLOBAL KIDS INC — $111,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL KIDS INCWAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC — $94,000 · Youth DevelopmentWAYPOINT ADVENTURE INCHamakua Youth Foundation Inc — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentHamakua Youth Foundation…+1 more — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentTURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $87,000 · Human ServicesTURTLE ISLAND…Earth Force Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesEarth Force I…DIRECT RELIEF — $54,000 · InternationalDIRECT RE…YOUTHLINC — $35,000 · InternationalYOUTHLINCRAINFOREST TRUST — $20,000 · InternationalRAINFORES…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $11,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…Groundwork Lawrence Inc — $93,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $18,000 · Community ImprovementBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $100,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $5,000 · HealthCIRCUS HARMONY — $40,000 · Arts & CulturePrevention Institute — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CIRCUS BARN INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$543,600Youth Development$298,000Human Services$162,000International$120,000Community Improvement$111,000Health$105,000Arts & Culture$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLOBAL KIDS INC — $111,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC — $94,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetGroundwork Lawrence Inc — $93,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $87,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHamakua Youth Foundation Inc — $85,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetSELF-ESTEM — $80,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetEarth Force Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $54,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCUS HARMONY — $40,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetYOUTHLINC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPrevention Institute — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLSTART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDISCOVERY SCHOOLHOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH VENTURE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN KIDS NOW — $7,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSBRIDGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CIRCUS BARN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALA'AI — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget350ORG — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CREATIVE 404 INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLiving Observatory Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 8.8% 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.

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.

National Life Group Charitable Foundation IncVT13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Llhlhm Foundation Margaret Baird Trustee 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 25%
  • Good Samaritan Haven Inc63% of income from government
  • Riverside Community Care Inc58% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc32% of income from government
  • Living Observatory Inc30% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc26% of income from government
  • Turtle Island Children's Center Inc25% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc7% of income from government
  • Discovery Schoolhouse Inc4% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to Llhlhm Foundation Margaret Baird Trustee?

Find your warmest path to Llhlhm Foundation Margaret Baird Trustee 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 51 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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