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Scarlet Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$506k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$390kInternational$237kHealth$145kFood & Nutrition$76kCrime & Legal$58kEducation$41kCivil Rights$10kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND$150,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$30,000
PARTNER IN HEALTH$30,000
FLORENCE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$20,000
MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION$20,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$20,000
GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION$20,000
FOOD PROJECT INC$20,000
WBUR$10,000
NPR$10,000
JANES DUE PROCESS INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
NE
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 20 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+49%

Still filing today

85%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalFood & NutritionScience & TechSocial ScienceOther
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

  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $335k · revenue +305%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • IF
    INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +49%
  • EF
    Electronic Frontier Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +77%
  • GC
    GROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +70%
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.

1
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
7
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
10
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
11
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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12
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Groton Public Library Endowment Trust. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $335,000 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENG…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOU…JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $32,500 · Civil RightsJANE'S DUE PROCESS INCMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $30,000 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCESS COALITIONPARTNER IN HEALTH: $120,000 · OtherPARTNER IN HEALTHTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $85,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $85,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODOAK MEADOW MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · OtherOAK MEADOW MONTESSORI SCHOOL I…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $14,000 · OtherGREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Other+10 more: $40,500 · Other+10 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEF…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $80,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE…INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY: $50,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR APPLIED…NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FO…EARTHJUSTICE: $15,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $70,000 · InternationalWORLD RESO…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…EDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $25,000 · InternationalEDEN PEOPL…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalThe Food Project Inc: $85,000 · Food & NutritionCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Science & TechFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $55,000 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$447,500Other$399,500Environment$280,000International$141,000Food & Nutrition$85,000Science & Tech$60,000Crime & Legal$55,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $335,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOAK MEADOW MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ENDOWMENT TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scarlet Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scarlet Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Scarlet Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Scarlet Charitable Trust 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.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home