· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE | $1,500 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $1,500 |
| CHAGRIN FALLS PARK COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| FUTURES INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MEDICAL MUTTS SERVICE DOGS INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Payne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Payne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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