· Public charity
Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund
To protect and enhance the natural resources of puerto rico.
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 $10k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| G-8 Grupo de las Ocho Comunidades | $92,027 |
| The Happy Givers | $91,600 |
| Cuerpo Climatico | $88,004 |
| Corporacion Del Proyecto Enlace Del Cano Martin Pena | $9,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in PR; read by stated purpose it is 43% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ADASOCIACION DE COMUNIDADES UNIDADES TOMANDO ACCION SOLID2× · 2019–2020 · $188k · revenue +319% · 27% of their budget
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC3× · 2019–2021 · $184k · revenue +41%- SFSURDNA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $182k · revenue +64%
Funded once
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCone grant, 2019 · $235k · revenue +13%- RPRESILIENT POWER PUERTO RICO INCone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -138%
- MAMANO A MANO AYUDANDO A PR- PRXPRone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Medical asst to under develop areas
Promote the right to housing and to the city, collective land tenure, climate justice and participatory practices, with emphasis in marginalized communities and self-built settlements in Puerto Rico and abroad, and contribute to develop…
To teach entrepreneurship to people interested in starting businesses in Puerto Rico with the mission of improving local and country economy thru small businesses.
Development activities, projects of housing and socioeconomic development to assist low and moderate income comunities in puerto rico.
Sustainability and environmental education/awareness.
Mission: To develop knowledge and tools to collectively transform government structures and achieve a fair and equitable distribution of public resources in Puerto Rico. Vision: A representative accountable and transparent governance…
Our mission is rooted in the belief that lasting social change in Puerto Rico begins by investing in the leadership safety and well-being of women girls and gender-fluid people. Through grantmaking and capacity building we support those…
Promote the economic technological social and business cultural progress of the commercial classes represented by the organization as small and medium business industrial and self-employment.
Ayuda puerto rico, inc. will provide critical relief directly to the puerto rico island and all of its victims.
Educate and research anti-racist and decolonizing work inside and outside of Puerto Rico
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haser Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monte Azul Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 26 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 ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds Happy Sonship ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION DE COMUNIDADES UNIDADES TOMANDO ACCION SOLID ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds RESILIENT POWER PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds FUNDACION UNIDOS PARA SERVIR ↗
- Who funds ConprmetidosCorp ↗
- Who funds HASER Inc ↗
- Who funds MUJERES DE ISLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Monte Azul Inc ↗
- Who funds Clean Energy Group Inc ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION EDUCATIVA PRO-DESARROLLO HUMANO DE CULEBRA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUQUEMOS PARA LA VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation 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: Hispanic Federation Inc · Puerto Rico Community Foundation Inc · Tides Center · Peter Alfond Foundation · Fondos Unidos de Puerto Rico Inc & United Way Puerto Rico · Boston Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Foundation Inc — 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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