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Plym Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 34
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$4.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Plym Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving34$168k53%
FY202327$107k44%
FY202234$131k56%
FY202131$199k35%
FY202034$156kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$207kHuman Services$103kHealth$77kRecreation & Sports$72kPublic Benefit$65kYouth Development$51kHousing & Shelter$41kEnvironment$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
MD
NC
HI
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Niles City Michigan$57,5002n/a
Chapin School$42,50030%
Guardians for New Futures Inc$29,90053%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte$20,25040%
Friends Seminary$20,0002n/a
Hackley School$17,50030%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$16,50050%
The Hyland Hills Junior Hockey Association$15,00011%
Na Kama Kai$14,00031%
Niles Township Fire Department Association Inc$12,5002n/a
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All grantees of Plym Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Niles City Michigan$57,5002n/a
Chapin School$42,50030%
Guardians for New Futures Inc$29,90053%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte$20,25040%
Friends Seminary$20,0002n/a
Hackley School$17,50030%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$16,50050%
The Hyland Hills Junior Hockey Association$15,00011%
Na Kama Kai$14,00031%
Niles Township Fire Department Association Inc$12,5002n/a
Yale University$12,0002n/a
Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc$10,00030%
Soul Dog Rescue$10,00011%
Dream On 3$10,00020%
Yale University$10,0002n/a
Sarah Lawrence College$10,00020%
River Essence Group Inc$8,0003n/a
School Year Abroad Inc$7,50050%
Go Jen Go Foundation Inc$7,50021%
Yale University$7,0001n/a
Therapeutic Equestrian Center$6,00015%
Remarkable Inc$5,000121%
Urbanity Dance Inc$5,00011%
Horizons for Homeless Children$5,00010%
Get Wet for a Vet Inc$5,000114%
Golf Fights Cancer Inc$5,00020%
Minds Matter of Boston Inc$5,00010%
Robin Hood Foundation$4,50010%
The Chapin School Ltd$4,50010%
White Plains Hospital Medical Center$4,00010%
North Shore Animal League America Inc$3,50030%
Wings World Quest Inc$3,00021%
Meals on Wheels Inc$3,00010%
The Barack Obama Foundation$2,00010%
Niles-Buchanan Meals on Wheels Inc$2,00017%
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Inc$2,00010%
The John Crosland School$1,75010%
East Hampton Library$1,50010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$1,50010%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$1,50010%
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc$1,50010%
Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River$1,30030%
Center for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc$1,00010%
The Hope for Families Center Inc$1,00020%
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri$1,00010%
Ballet and Beyond NYC Inc$1,00012%
Bedford Free Library$5001n/a
The Moorings Educational Foundation Inc$50010%
Defensa Animal de Rincon Incor$50010%
Lake Forest Academy$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($343k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Plym Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChapin School: $42,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGuardians for New Futures Inc: $29,900 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte: $20,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHackley School: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hyland Hills Junior Hockey Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNa Kama Kai: $14,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSoul Dog Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDream On 3: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSarah Lawrence College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSchool Year Abroad Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGo Jen Go Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTherapeutic Equestrian Center: $6,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetRemarkable Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUrbanity Dance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGet Wet for a Vet Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGolf Fights Cancer Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMinds Matter of Boston Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWings World Quest Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNiles-Buchanan Meals on Wheels Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMuseo de Arte de Puerto Rico Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe John Crosland School: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Hampton Library: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Sailing Foundation of Indian River: $1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hope for Families Center Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBallet and Beyond NYC Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Moorings Educational Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDefensa Animal de Rincon Incor: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLake Forest Academy: $500 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 42.

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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.

The Bessemer Giving FundNJ16.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ethel Kennedy Foundation · James Ford Bell Foundation · The John's Island Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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How do I get to Plym Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Plym 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 Plym Foundation

How much does Plym Foundation give?
Plym Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $167,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Plym Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Human Services (13%), Health (10%).
Who are Plym Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Niles City Michigan ($58k), Chapin School ($43k), Guardians for New Futures Inc ($30k).
Does Plym Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Plym Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Plym Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, Ethel Kennedy Foundation, James Ford Bell Foundation.
Where is Plym Foundation based?
Plym Foundation is based in IN.

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 96 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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