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Loon Point Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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Its 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 its 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
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

VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
MD
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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%
+13%

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
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

  • 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 +13%
  • HU
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY HBS REUNION GIFT
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University; 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 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. 16 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Loon Point Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Loon Point Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.

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 20 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home