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Plummer Fdn-Cash
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $999k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES | $285,000 |
| GRIOT ARTS INC | $215,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PARISH - PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL | $102,100 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP - EPISCOPAL | $102,100 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $100,000 |
| ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC | $82,500 |
| GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT | $62,500 |
| URBAN RECIPE INC | $62,500 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIV FDN | $62,500 |
| VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC | $60,000 |
| ON THE RISE INC | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WORCESTER FREE LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| BROADWAY COMMUNITY INC | $25,000 |
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, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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
- JMJAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $790k · revenue +30%
- TCTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $318k · revenue +12%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $178k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +89%
- SJST JOHN'S PARISH - PROTESTANTone grant, 2020 · $101k
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF ATLANTA INCone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Free Library. 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 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 95 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 JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE TEMPLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds THE DONOHO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN RECIPE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · AEC Trust · Goldsmith Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank 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 Plummer Fdn-Cash 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.
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
- Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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.
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