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Payne Family 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.

$116k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$62,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$298k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Payne Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$116k30%
FY202318$92k17%
FY202223$102k43%
FY202122$125k41%
FY202023$93k43%
FY201923$83k43%
FY201817$66k24%
FY201717$61kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$435kHealth$91kRecreation & Sports$56kArts & Culture$53kEnvironment$37kHuman Services$27kPhilanthropy$17kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
ID
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
CT
CO
KS
TN
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Payne Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSkidmore College: $339,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aloha Foundation Inc: $43,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNew London Barn Playhouse Inc: $39,800 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAlice Peck Day Memorial Hospital: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAusbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust: $18,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThorne Ecological Institute: $5,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProctor Academy: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStowe Land Trust: $2,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFutures Incorporated: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Wildlife Center Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWedontwaste Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Family Assistance Association: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Ski Museum Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBelieve Ranch and Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Current Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMountain River School Ltd: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAttention Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budget1 for the Planet Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Valley Haven: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThistle Farms Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Mutts Service Dogs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350org: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Westminster School Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Stowe Free Library Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Payne Family Foundation

How much does Payne Family Foundation give?
Payne Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $116,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Payne Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (12%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are Payne Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Skidmore College ($339k), Colby-Sawyer College ($85k), The Aloha Foundation Inc ($43k).
Does Payne Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Payne Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Payne Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Ibm International Foundation.
Where is Payne Family Foundation based?
Payne Family Foundation is based in NH.

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 69 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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