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Plum Beach Foundation at a glance

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Plum Beach Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$640kReligion$446kArts & Culture$164kRecreation & Sports$41kHousing & Shelter$24kHuman Services$5kEnvironment$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$347k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC$50,000
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC$10,000
GRASSROOTS SOCCER INC$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5k → 17%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 7 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$1.3M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+38%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • TS
    THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +159%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $101k · revenue +40%
  • SP
    SANDS POINT GOLF FUND INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $555 · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +136%
  • PA
    PUBLIC ART FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -10%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +5%
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
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
2
The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc

To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…

Arts & Culture
3
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
4
The Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation

The zachary and elizabeth m. fisher center for alzheimer's research foundation is dedicated to attacking the scourge of alzheimer's disease through a 3-pronged assault focused on understanding the cause of alzheimer's disease (ad),…

Health
5
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
6
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
7
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
8
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
9
Friends of the High Line Inc

Friends of the high line works to build and maintain an extraordinary public space on the high line. we seek to protect the entire historic structure, transforming an essential piece of new york's industrial past and inspiring new ways of…

Arts & Culture
10
Long Island Board of Realtors Inc

The mission of the long island board of realtors is to be the trusted ally uniting our realtor members in promoting the benefits of and ensuring the future of real property for all.

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11
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
12
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Art Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sands Point Golf Fund Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $499,000 · OtherSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE: $446,394 · OtherCOMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE+3 more: $39,595 · OtherTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND S…GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGUILD HALL O…THE BIG HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,500 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsPROJECT ALS INC: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentAMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE INC: $500 · Animals
Other$984,989Arts & Culture$149,000Public Safety & Disaster$101,500Recreation & Sports$45,500Health$35,500Human Services$5,000Environment$1,000Animals$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $499,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $15,040 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIG HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWAINSCOTT WINDMILL FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDS POINT GOLF FUND INC: $555 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE INC: $500 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.

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.

The Pamela and Lauren…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pamela and Laurence Tarica FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $160k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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