How much does Plummer Fdn-Cash give?

Plummer Fdn-Cash reported 39 grants totaling $2,369,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 45 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Plummer Fdn-Cash fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Arts & Culture (27%), Education (12%).

Who are Plummer Fdn-Cash's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: James Merrill House Foundation ($790k), The Commonwealth School Inc ($318k), Church of the Holy Apostles ($310k).

Does Plummer Fdn-Cash fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Plummer Fdn-Cash accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Plummer Fdn-Cash?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Tr Uw Charles I Branan, Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Plummer Fdn-Cash based?

Plummer Fdn-Cash is based in NJ.

Plummer Fdn-Cash

Plummer Fdn-Cash at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$2.4M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$750k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$2.5MArts & Culture$1.8MEducation$803kHealth$489kHuman Services$225kCommunity Improvement$188kFood & Nutrition$158kHousing & Shelter$150kOther$0

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $31k
$10k–50k20 grants · $305k
$50k–250k11 grants · $999k
$250k+2 grants · $1.0M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT	$100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$100,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC	$82,500
GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT	$62,500
GEORGIA STATE UNIV FDN	$62,500
URBAN RECIPE INC	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.0M · 43 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+30%

Still filing today

67%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthReligionOther

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

JM
JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $790k · revenue +30%
TC
THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $318k · revenue +12%
SC
SHEPHERD CENTER INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $178k · revenue +40%

Funded once

AC
AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +89%
SJ
ST JOHN'S PARISH - PROTESTANT
one grant, 2020 · $101k
ED
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC
one grant, 2019 · $100k

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.

The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture

Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Central Square Theater Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement

The Common Application Inc

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; 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.

04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/63

Grantees still filing

47/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,198,020Arts & Culture$1,476,980Education$767,770Human Services$407,625Health$361,790Religion$291,680Community Improvement$187,910

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.

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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA34.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Plummer Fdn-Cash funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plummer Fdn-Cash. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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