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Plethuno Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,560
Largest grant, FY2024
$47,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Plethuno Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Human ServicesHealthReligionInternationalArts & CultureOther
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 arriving8$57k63%
FY202313$29k38%
FY202212$45k25%
FY202115$55k20%
FY202016$58k38%
FY201914$48k64%
FY201814$57k64%
FY201714$45kn/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.

Religion$138kHuman Services$98kHousing & Shelter$47kCommunity Improvement$45kHealth$18kEducation$12kFood & Nutrition$8kInternational$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Elm City Church$32,7145n/a
Give Her Wings Inc$31,50065%
Living on the Edge Ministries Inc$31,28660%
Focus on the Family$22,5004n/a
Discovering Mercy$16,61444%
Next Level Church Inc$16,3604n/a
Monadnock Family Services$15,08640%
Adult & Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey Inc$12,50020%
Punxsutawney Christian School$11,90332%
Bayside Community Church Inc$10,0003n/a
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Plethuno Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Elm City Church$32,7145n/a
Give Her Wings Inc$31,50065%
Living on the Edge Ministries Inc$31,28660%
Focus on the Family$22,5004n/a
Discovering Mercy$16,61444%
Next Level Church Inc$16,3604n/a
Monadnock Family Services$15,08640%
Adult & Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey Inc$12,50020%
Punxsutawney Christian School$11,90332%
Bayside Community Church Inc$10,0003n/a
Chestnut Grove Independent Church$6,5001n/a
Broken Chains International Inc$6,06240%
Overland Missions Inc$4,15020%
Hope Heals Inc$4,12020%
Children International$2,80820%
Choices Pregnancy Services$2,50010%
Cyrus Foundation$2,5001n/a
Educational Media Foundation$1,80040%
Oak Lawn Cemetery Association$1,50010%
Refuge for Women Inc$1,43210%
Woodland Community Church$1,3501n/a
Samaritan's Purse$1,01810%
Horses Healing Hearts Inc$1,00011%
Grace to You$1,0001n/a
Grace Church San Diego Inc$1,0001n/a
In Touch Ministries Inc$1,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$1,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$75010%
Broad River Abundant Life Foundation$500147%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50010%
Tri County Church$5001n/a
Insight for Living$50010%
Heal and Thrive Global$26010%
Eagles' View Ministries$17710%
Revelation Media Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Plethuno Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGive Her Wings Inc: $31,500 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $31,286 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDiscovering Mercy: $16,614 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMonadnock Family Services: $15,086 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPunxsutawney Christian School: $11,903 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBroken Chains International Inc: $6,062 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOverland Missions Inc: $4,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $4,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren International: $2,808 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChoices Pregnancy Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEducational Media Foundation: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOak Lawn Cemetery Association: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRefuge for Women Inc: $1,432 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,018 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorses Healing Hearts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroad River Abundant Life Foundation: $500 over 1y, 47% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInsight for Living: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeal and Thrive Global: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEagles' View Ministries: $177 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRevelation Media Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

Servant FoundationKS14× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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.

Compare Plethuno Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Plethuno Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Plethuno 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.

About Plethuno Foundation

How much does Plethuno Foundation give?
Plethuno Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $56,665 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Plethuno Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Human Services (24%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Plethuno Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Elm City Church ($33k), Give Her Wings Inc ($32k), Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ($31k).
Does Plethuno Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Plethuno Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Plethuno Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Plethuno Foundation based?
Plethuno Foundation is based in PA.

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 56 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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