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· Private foundation
ROBERT FRANCIS MISELIS FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$74k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
2
Communities
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of ROBERT FRANCIS MISELIS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
veterans
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE$17,000
- HEROES IN TRANSITION$15,000
- SIERRA DELTA INC$15,000
- BOSTON UNIVERSITY$15,000
- CONCORD CONSRVATORY OF MUSIC$5,000
- ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND$5,000
- RED LILY POND PROJECT ASSOCIATION$2,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$257k · 11 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
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Total granted
$257k
$6k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+57%
+182%
Still filing today
64%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther
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
- CWCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE4× · 2021–2024 · $49k · revenue +189%
- HIHEROES IN TRANSITION2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +57%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +2884%
Funded once
- BUBoston University School of Medicinone grant, 2017 · $3k
- KCKatelyns Closetone grant, 2017 · $2k
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +182%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Cape Verdean Veterans
Arts & Culture
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Maine Paws for Veterans Inc
The mission of maine paws for veterans, inc. is to provide service dog training and support to veterans with military-related post-traumatic stress.
Human Services
3
Maine Veterans Project
To reduce the numbers of veteran suicides by providing direct supportive services and programs to veterans and their families living with service- related post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries.
Human Services
4
Cape May County Coast Guard
Organization's primary exempt purpose honors coast guard personnel and their families for the extraordinary role they play in our nation and our community celebrates and educates regarding the many deep connections that exist between the…
Philanthropy
5
Cape Cod Commercial
To maintain a sustainable, small-boat, local fishing fleet by providing economic support, opportunities to create better public policies, and advocacy to protect and restore the ocean environment and fishing stocks.
Environment
6
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
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The Naked Warrior Project Inc
To support fallen special ops veterans
Human Services
8
Wounded Warrior Homes Inc
Wounded warrior homes provides post 9/11 wounded veterans struggling with traumatic brain injury and/or post traumatic stress disorder with supportive transitional houseing and a host of comprehensive re-intergrative services.
Human Services
9
Wounded Natureorg
Wounded nature assemble volunteer boaters and veterans to remove debris from hard to reach coastal areas.
Environment
10
Skydive for Veterans
Raise funds for veterans, all our proceeds go to house of heroes ct chapter in hamden, ct and work vessels for vets located in noank, ct.
Philanthropy
11
Cape Cod Community Television Corp
Provide community access cablecasting broadcasts
Arts & Culture
12
Cape and Islands United Way Inc
The mission of the cape and islands united way inc is to increase the organized capacity for people on cape cod and the islands to care for one another and to improve the human condition of the region.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers and the most unlike its peers is Red Lily Pond Project Assoc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$118,200Health$67,000Environment$32,000Human Services$26,000Education$18,000Philanthropy$1,000
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.
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.
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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 organisation ROBERT FRANCIS MISELIS FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RED LILY POND PROJECT ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043368675 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RED LILY POND PROJECT ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Robert Francis Miselis Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Robert Francis Miselis Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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