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Loon Point 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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$6.2MEducation$5.5MYouth Development$1.0MHealth$635kScience & Tech$300kReligion$141kEnvironment$95kInternational$65k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,537,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DAF$2,537,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $1.0M) 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%YMCA CAMP BELKNAP: $250k → 9%YMCA CAMP BELKNAP: $250k → 9%YMCA CAMP BELKNAP: $250k → 9%YMCA CAMP BELKNAP: $20k → 9%YMCA CAMP BELKNAP: $250k → 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
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
MD

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 7 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$10M
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    5× · 2018–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +47%
  • YC
    YMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +156%
  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $525k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • HU
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY HBS REUNION GIFT
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
9
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE DAF — $5,912,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DAF+4 more — $376,000 · Other+4 morePresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $2,300,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Col…Trustees of Dartmouth College — $2,000,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $300,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard Colleg…BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $300,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC+1 more — $5,000 · EducationYMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC — $1,020,000 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY — $700,000 · Community ImprovementCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $525,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $100,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $25,000 · HealthVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $320,000 · PhilanthropyAppalachian Mountain Club — $50,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $45,000 · EnvironmentAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $15,000 · International
Other$6,288,000Education$4,905,000Human Services$1,020,000Community Improvement$700,000Health$650,000Philanthropy$320,000Environment$95,000International$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $2,300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $2,000,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC — $1,020,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $700,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $525,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $320,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Loon Point Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 20 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines