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Oliver & Jennie Donaldson Char(1071

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$349k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$4.0MEducation$2.5MScience & Tech$1.7MEnvironment$1.2MArts & Culture$977kYouth Development$400kAnimals$324kHuman Services$227kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $349k
$27,019
Median grant
11
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$349,306
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$202,921
THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH$150,000
CHARLESTON JAZZ ACADEMY$120,000
DUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST$110,576
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$103,076
WESTERN HEALTH CONNECT$83,842
PUTNAM HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION$80,248
FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING FBMS$75,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC$75,000
SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM$50,076
PEOPLE INCORPORATED$50,000
GREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE$36,101
WOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY$35,000
SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA$35,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DENNISON MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%BIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $10k → 13%HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 60 repeat orgs$677k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
32

Total granted

$11M
$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+19%

Still filing today

78%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +10%
  • EU
    Emory University
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue +34%
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • FR
    Fall River Historical Society
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -64%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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2
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.

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3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
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
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
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
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 98 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
54/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,048,620 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institu…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $737,122 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARC…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUT…Putnam Hospital Center: $206,275 · HealthPutnam Hospital CenterPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $150,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION N…+9 more: $404,098 · Health+9 moreGREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE: $378,064 · OtherGREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATI…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON: $366,112 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD A…THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH: $350,000 · OtherTHE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SO…FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING FBMS: $272,101 · OtherFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING F…CHARLESTON JAZZ ACADEMY: $255,000 · OtherCHARLESTON JAZZ ACADEMYSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC: $242,500 · OtherSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND…WESTERN HEALTH CONNECT: $158,842 · OtherPHOENIX SOCIETY INC: $115,000 · OtherTIBETAN NUNS PROJECT: $107,023 · Other+34 more: $778,592 · Other+34 moreEmory University: $1,222,623 · EducationEmory UniversityCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $590,385 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON …PAWLING FREE LIBRARY: $129,421 · EducationPAWLING FREE LIBRARYThe Girls School of Austin Inc: $129,138 · EducationThe Girls School of Au…+9 more: $258,776 · Education+9 moreCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,681,624 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARB…+1 more: $5,062 · Science & TechDUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST: $555,576 · EnvironmentDUNSTABLE R…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $175,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RES…NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $106,285 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST W…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSET…WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $94,758 · EnvironmentWESTPORT LA…THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Environment+3 more: $50,000 · EnvironmentSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureCLOUDS HILL VICTORIAN HOUSE MUSEUM: $77,159 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $65,000 · Arts & CultureIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $52,740 · Arts & CultureFall River Historical Society: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $30,500 · Arts & CultureNorth Country Studio Workshops Inc: $27,960 · Arts & CultureLA FARGE FOUNDATION OF NEWPORT: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $26,348 · Arts & CultureSouth Carolina Aquarium: $286,618 · AnimalsDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $12,814 · Animals+2 more: $14,814 · Animals
Health$2,796,115Other$3,023,234Education$2,330,343Science & Tech$1,686,686Environment$1,181,619Arts & Culture$594,707Animals$314,246

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,681,624 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEmory University: $1,222,623 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,048,620 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $737,122 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $590,385 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST: $555,576 over 6y, 59% of budgetGREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE: $378,064 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $286,618 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC: $242,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPutnam Hospital Center: $206,275 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $170,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAWLING FREE LIBRARY: $129,421 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetThe Girls School of Austin Inc: $129,138 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPHOENIX SOCIETY INC: $115,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTIBETAN NUNS PROJECT: $107,023 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $106,285 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY BUILD INC: $100,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $94,758 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPutnam Hospital Center Foundation Inc: $80,248 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $79,884 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLOUDS HILL VICTORIAN HOUSE MUSEUM: $77,159 over 4y, 26% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $65,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $62,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $52,740 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFall River Historical Society: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAWAKENING RECOVERY INC: $47,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $43,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $33,907 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $30,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNorth Country Studio Workshops Inc: $27,960 over 2y, 42% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $27,491 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEMA CHODRON FOUNDATION: $26,875 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Charleston Promise Neighborhood: $22,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFABNEWPORT INC: $22,285 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLA FARGE FOUNDATION OF NEWPORT: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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 COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Putnam Hospital Center ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWLING FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds The Girls School of Austin Inc ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds TIBETAN NUNS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY BUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Putnam Hospital Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOUDS HILL VICTORIAN HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
  • Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗

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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI28.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Thomas a Rodgers Jr Family Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Van Sloun Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Champlin Foundation

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 Oliver & Jennie Donaldson Char(1071 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oliver & Jennie Donaldson Char(1071. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • People Incorporated: 85% of income from government
  • Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Washington County Museum of Fine Arts: 2% of income from government
  • Fall River Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Greater Lewes Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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 Oliver & Jennie Donaldson Char(1071 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 98 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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