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Margaret Nomentana Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2018
9
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
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 FY20172018.

Arts & Culture$8kHealth$2kEnvironment$2kCivil Rights$200Education$100Animals$50
02FY2018 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK CITY BALLET DAVID H KOCH THEATER$2,500
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$1,000
ARCHITALX$1,000
GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST$1,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND$500
Utah Health and Human Rights$100
PARK SCHOOL$100
ACLU FOUNDATION OF MAINE$100
MAINE ANIMAL COALITION$25
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW YORK CITY BALLET GUILD: $3k → 17%Utah Health and Human Rights: $100 → 8%PARK SCHOOL: $100 → 11%JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $500 → 19%MAINE ANIMAL COALITION: $25 → 7%GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST: $1k → 13%NEW YORK CITY BALLET DAVID H KOCH THEATER: $3k → 17%Utah Health and Human Rights Project: $100 → 8%THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND: $500 → 19%ACLU FOUNDATION OF MAINE: $100 → 7%ACLU FOUNDATION OF MAINE: $100 → 7%Greater Portland Landmarks: $100 → 7%MAINE ANIMAL COALITION: $25 → 7%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.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7k · 7 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$7k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
-2%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • A
    ARCHITALX
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +109%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • GL
    GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +240%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET GUILD
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • GP
    GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue -2%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
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
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc

To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…

Arts & Culture
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

11
Portland Art Museum

The mission of the portland art museum is to engage diverse communities through art and film of enduring quality, and to collect, preserve and educate for the enrichment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Park School of Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Architalx. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCARCHITALX — $2,000 · Arts & CultureARCHITALXJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET GUILD — $2,500 · OtherNEW YORK CITY BALLET GUI…ACLU FOUNDATION OF MAINE — $200 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF MAINE+1 more — $50 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD …UTAH HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT — $200 · HealthUTAH HEALTH & HUMAN…GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentGREATER LOVELL LA…THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $100 · Education
Arts & Culture$5,600Other$2,750Health$2,200Environment$2,000Education$100

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 budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHITALX — $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC — $100 over 1y, 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Margaret Nomentana 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Margaret Nomentana Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Margaret Nomentana 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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