How much did MEL BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION LTD grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of MEL BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION LTD’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

CULTIVA INTERNATIONAL INC$5,310
PECONIC LAND TRUST INC$5,000
TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN$2,500
PHILMONT BEAUTIFICATION INC$2,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,050
JUNALUSKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$1,836
BELL COUNTY MASTER GARDENER ASSOCIATION$1,000
KIDS GARDENING CLUB$277

02The need

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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 95% of MEL BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION LTD’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

MEL BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION LTDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$159k · 9 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$159k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+196%

Still filing today

44%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity 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

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PECONIC LAND TRUST INC
5× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +474%
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INJURED MARINE SEMPER FI FUND
3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +40%
MB
MR BOBS GARDEN FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +27%

Funded once

CI
CULTIVA INTERNATIONAL INC
one grant, 2021 · $15k
MD
MIYARD DENVER
one grant, 2020 · $6k
MB
MR BOB'S FOUNDATION FOR YMCA
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.

Sustainable Growers

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Rewild Long Island Inc

ReWild Long Island is dedicated to collaborating with local communities across Long Island to protect and improve the biodiversity, resilience and health of regional ecosystems. This is achieved by adopting sustainable landscaping…

Environment

The Lincoln Park Conservancy Inc

Grow a sustainable organic garden

Arts & Culture

Development in Gardening

Rooted in the practices and principles of agroecology, Development in Gardening works with uniquely marginalized communities to grow regenerative gardens and helps farmers build resilient, long-lasting food systems for themselves and their…

Community Improvement

Nassau County Farm BureauInc

To work for the betterment of Agriculture and private property rights within Nassau County.

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East End Food Institute

East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…

Food & Nutrition

The Big Garden

The Big Garden cultivates food security by developing community gardens, creating opportunities to serve, and providing education on issues relating to hunger.

Religion

Natura Bolivia Foundation

Natura Bolivia Foundation is dedicated to conserving rainforests and habitats in Latin America, in a way that contributes to the well-being of local communities. We also work to develop watershed conservation and incentive systems, and…

International

Pensacola and Perdido Bays

Pensacola and perdido bays estuary program serves as a trusted source for residents, businesses, industry, and the community on issues relating to preserving, restoring, improving and maintaining the natural habitat and ecosystem of the…

Environment

Arlington Garden in Pasadena

Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.

Environment

101 Gardens

Our mission is to empower communities to become smarter, healthier, and more compassionate people through aquaponics.

Environment

Naples Botanical Garden Inc

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philmont Beautification Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mr Bobs Garden Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/9

Grantees still filing

8/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$154,607Environment$47,469Health$4,982Community Improvement$2,500Education$2,000Human Services$500

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

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 organisation MEL BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION LTD 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MR BOBS GARDEN FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833279394 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MR BOBS GARDEN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mel Bartholomew Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Mel Bartholomew Foundation Ltd through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MEL BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION LTD

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mel Bartholomew Foundation Ltd?

More from the funding graph

MEL BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION LTD

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mel Bartholomew Foundation Ltd?

More from the funding graph