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North Pond 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALMANACK ARTS COLONY | $60,000 |
| TUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST | $30,000 |
| MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| Nantucket New School | $20,000 |
| PASCON FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PLANNING OF SOUTH | $17,000 |
| NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,281 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $15,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $15,000 |
| FARMERS LEGAL ACTION GROUP | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +10%
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION8× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +68%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
- ASA SAFE WAYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CFCOUNCIL FOR SECULAR HUMANISMone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Linda Loring Nature Foundation Inc. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 77 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALMANACK ARTS COLONY INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds O'Connor Hospital ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Four Winds School Inc ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Gilbert Verney Foundation · The Hale Family Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Nancy Sayles Day Foundation · Clara Foundation Inc · Osceola Foundation Inc · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc
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 North Pond 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
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.
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