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New England Dairy and Food Council

Provide the latest science-based nutrition information and research to a variety of audiences, develop effective and exciting nutrition and wellness programs, and educate consumers, media, educators, school administrators and health professionals about the health benefits of dairy via presentations, science-based articles and other…

$117k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Food & Nutrition$187kEducation$8k
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $58,351, the rows itemized in this filing. The $117,174 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,823 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$6,515
Median grant
3
States reached
$723k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF DRACUT$11,621
CITY OF METHUEN METHUEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$10,358
MASCOMA VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SAU #62$7,596
OLD ROCHESTER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$6,515
TOWN OF SMITHFIELD SCHOOL DEPARTMENT$6,489
CITY OF EVERETT$5,320
TOWN OF SUTTON$5,296
CITY OF NASHUA$5,156
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OLD ROCHESTER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7k → 8%CITY OF EVERETT: $5k → 8%CITY OF METHUEN METHUEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 10%CITY OF BRIDGEPORT BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $17k → 9%TOWN OF WALLINGFORD WALLINGFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $7k → 12%TOWN OF SMITHFIELD SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $6k → 14%TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6k → 9%MASCOMA VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SAU #62: $8k → 10%SILVER LAKE REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6k → 8%TOWN OF DRACUT: $12k → 8%CITY OF HAVERHILL HAVERHILL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $18k → 10%STAMFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $9k → 9%NORTH PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $33k → 14%CITY OF PROVIDENCE PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40k → 14%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.
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 field
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2022.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2022, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $40,289 · OtherPROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENTNorth Providence FOP Lodge #13: $33,150 · OtherNorth Providence FOP Lodge #13Haverhill Public Schools: $17,900 · OtherHaverhill Public SchoolsBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $17,221 · OtherBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLSDracut Public Schools: $11,621 · OtherDracut Public SchoolsCITY OF METHUEN MI: $10,358 · OtherSTAMFORD YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU - CITY OF STAMFORD: $9,000 · OtherMASCOMA VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SAU #62: $7,596 · OtherWALLINGFORD YOUTH & SOCIAL SERVICES: $7,400 · OtherOLD ROCHESTER REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6,515 · OtherSMITHFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6,489 · Other+5 more: $27,121 · Other+5 more
Other$194,660

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Providence FOP Lodge #13: $33,150 over 1y, 39% 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.

  • Who funds North Providence FOP Lodge #13 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Project Lead the Way IncIN24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Project Lead the Way Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · Share Our Strength · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New England Dairy and Food Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New England Dairy and Food Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2020
’20
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–20
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to New England Dairy and Food Council 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $169k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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