Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$244kEducation$170kArts & Culture$149kHealth$133kFood & Nutrition$124kHuman Services$120kEnvironment$78kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PAWTUCKET$10,000
ELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$10,000
NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CURRENCY$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE$10,000
FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$8,000
LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY$6,500
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER$6,250
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
PROJECT GOAL INC$5,000
DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RI$5,000
SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE$5,000
PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 7%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CURRENCY: $10k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CURRENCY: $8k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF RI: $1k → 14%BENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC: $2k → 7%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $8k → 14%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $8k → 14%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $5k → 14%CLOTHES TO KIDS RI: $2k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RI: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $4k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $4k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $4k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $4k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $3k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $3k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $3k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $2k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $2k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 14%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 51 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
26

Total granted

$1.1M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +47%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET
    6× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +38%
  • PG
    PROJECT GOAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • PROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +109%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NE
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • MA
    MASS AUDUBON ARCADIA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

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
Providence Preparatory Charter School

The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.

Education
2
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island

The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…

Human Services
3
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
4
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts

Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.

Education
5
Providence Promise

Providence promise promotes high educational aspirations and more equitable opportunities for providence public school students by advocating for college savings accounts and family engagement, increasing financial literacy, and reducing…

Education
6
Rhode Island Parent Information Network Inc

We are peer professionals on a mission to help rhode islanders of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds get the support they need to thrive.

Human Services
7
Community Preparatory School

Community preparatory school is an independent private school, serving grades 4 to 8, striving to empower our diverse student body to reach full academic and leadership potential while building a beloved community.

Education
8
Newport Community School

Newport community school provides educational opportunities to complement classroom learning and support academic success, personal responsibility and economic self-sufficiency in a vibrant engaged commmunity.

Education
9
Cowden Street Collaborative Inc

Our mission is to cultivate a community where students take ownership of their education, preparing them to excel in high school, college, and beyond. we provide a rigorous academic experience that empowers scholars to view themselves as…

Education
10
Paul Cuffee School

Personal initiative, perserverance and social responsibility. our facility is committed to differentiated instruction and evidence-based practices that connect academic success to social-emotional learning.

Education
11
Blackstone Academy Charter School Inc

The mission of blackstone academy is to build a small community of learners and leaders that fosters independent inquiry, teamwork, communication, and problem solving.

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence and the most unlike its peers is Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic. 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 backsteadyEconomic Empowerment Organi…Rhode Island Civic Organiza…Rhode Island Economic Devel…K-12 Charter and Alternativ…Affordable Housing Developm…Providence Urban Revitaliza…K-12 Education & Youth Deve…Faith-Based Community Minis…Animal Rescue and AdoptionRhode Island Education Advo…Healthcare Systems and Prov…Cemetery and Burial 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr19%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr19%37%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
11%
425/3,888

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

52 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. 52 of the 80 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
41/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER — $39,900 · OtherSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $38,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC — $35,000 · OtherRI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSICIndividual grant recipient — $33,700 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND — $30,500 · OtherRI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $27,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE REDEEMER — $21,750 · OtherEAST BAY FOOD PANTRY — $27,000 · OtherSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $30,250 · OtherELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $43,000 · OtherELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINICDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $43,000 · OtherDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INCLUCY'S HEARTH — $35,000 · OtherLUCY'S HEARTH+30 more — $218,689 · Other+30 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE — $67,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS C…PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE — $52,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROVIDENCE AFTER…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET — $51,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…SQUASHBUSTERS INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentFamilies First Community Center — $26,000 · Human ServicesFamilies Fi…BEAUTIFUL DAY — $21,000 · Human ServicesBEAUTIFUL D…CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE — $20,200 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S …THE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT — $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT ST…FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $11,200 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERV…GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $10,500 · Human ServicesGREATER PRO…WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES — $8,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESO…134 Collaborative — $7,500 · Human Services134 Collabo…+2 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $33,750 · EducationPROVIDENC…COLLEGE VISIONS — $15,000 · EducationCOLLEGE V…NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $12,000 · EducationNEWPORTFA…ONWARD WE LEARN — $9,500 · EducationONWARD WE…PROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $9,000 · EducationPROVIDENC…NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $7,500 · EducationNEW BEDFO…PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM — $5,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR CAREER EXPLORATION — $4,300 · Education+3 more — $8,500 · Education+3 morePROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $27,500 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $22,300 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTrinity Repertory Company — $12,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL — $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $5,500 · Arts & CulturePROJECT GOAL INC — $51,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUREFIRE FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Recreation & SportsFrenchman Bay Conservancy — $32,500 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY INC — $15,500 · EnvironmentWOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED — $5,000 · Environment
Other$648,289Youth Development$179,500Human Services$126,400Education$104,550Arts & Culture$94,800Recreation & Sports$63,000Environment$53,000

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 budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE — $67,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE — $52,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET — $51,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT GOAL INC — $51,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $43,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $43,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER — $39,900 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH — $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $33,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy — $32,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $30,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $27,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetEAST BAY FOOD PANTRY — $27,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFamilies First Community Center — $26,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $22,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBEAUTIFUL DAY — $21,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE — $20,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT — $18,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $17,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC — $16,250 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC — $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE VISIONS — $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education — $15,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $12,539 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP SUREFIRE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $11,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONWARD WE LEARN — $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC — $8,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget134 Collaborative — $7,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJ ARTHUR TRUDEAU MEMORIAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAE ORGANIZATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetACADEMY FOR CAREER EXPLORATION — $4,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSPIRING MINDS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL ONE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $2,500 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.

  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT GOAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ELLSWORTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Families First Community Center ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTIFUL DAY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
  • Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SUREFIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND 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.

The Champlin Foundati…The Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Amica Companies Found…Billy Andrade-Brad Fa…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…Citizens Charitable F…Banknewport Charitabl…Washington Trust Co C…The Nordson Corporati…
The Champlin FoundationPA74.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Amica Companies Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Nordson Corporation 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 Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee 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 · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee?

    Find your warmest path to Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee 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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    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 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