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Park Loop Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Park Loop Charitable 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.6MRecreation & Sports$897kReligion$30kCommunity Improvement$10kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $392k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$35,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION$550,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER$180,668
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$136,667
GROTON SCHOOL$75,000
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC$35,000
SAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$35,000
HOLTON-ARMS SCHOOL$35,000
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC$25,000
WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY$15,000
THE LIFELIGHT FOUNDATION$10,000
RARE HOPE FKA HOPE FOR ANNABEL$5,000
ONE LOVE FOUNDATION$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GROTON SCHOOL: $150k → 8%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $35k → 17%WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $15k → 14%RARE HOPE FKA HOPE FOR ANNABEL: $5k → 8%VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $550k → 8%HOLTON-ARMS SCHOOL: $35k → 8%TOWN OF MOUNT DESERT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 11%GROTON SCHOOL: $75k → 8%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $35k → 17%WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $10k → 14%VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $157k → 8%GROTON SCHOOL: $50k → 8%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $35k → 17%WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $10k → 14%VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $35k → 17%WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $10k → 14%VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $90k → 8%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $245k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $235k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $225k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $185k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $181k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $104k → 14%SAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $102k → 14%SAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $100k → 14%SAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $35k → 14%SAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $35k → 14%SAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $35k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
IA
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 9 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$3.4M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+43%

Still filing today

56%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
  • COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +7%
  • GROTON SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF MOUNT DESERT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +43%
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
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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2
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
3
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
4
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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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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Town of Mount Desert Community Development Corporation. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,174,978 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $897,094 · EducationVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INCGROTON SCHOOL: $275,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $140,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC+3 more: $88,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $325,134 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICSAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $307,000 · OtherSAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL DAY …UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $226,667 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $45,000 · Other+1 more: $30,000 · OtherTOWN OF MOUNT DESERT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRARE Hope Inc: $5,000 · Health
Education$2,575,072Other$933,801Community Improvement$10,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,174,978 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $897,094 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $325,134 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $275,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOWN OF MOUNT DESERT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRARE Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Park Loop Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Park Loop Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Park Loop Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Park Loop Charitable Foundation 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 14 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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