· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k18 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $62,000 |
| COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ALICE PECK DAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $7,000 |
| CHAPIN SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| NEW LONDON NH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| ALOHA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $1,500 |
| THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE | $1,500 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| FUTURES INC | $1,000 |
| CHAGRIN FALLS PARK COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $339k · revenue +34%
- TATHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +13%
NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- CSCHAPMAN SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2019 · $10k
- ASAUSBON SARGENT & MESSA FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- HMHOOD MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The mission of estes valley land trust is to conserve land throughout the estes valley and surrounding areas for current and future generations.
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stowe Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Believe Ranch and Rescue. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 69 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FUTURES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CURRENT INC ↗
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: 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
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 Payne Family 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.
- Futures Incorporated — 43% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 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.