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Scott a Nathan Charitable Tr

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.

$235k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$1.4MHealth$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.0MEnvironment$676kCivil Rights$533kPhilanthropy$410kRecreation & Sports$275kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BECHLER CANYON FUND - TBF$200,000
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$25,000
MARET SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $250k → 6%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100k → 16%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $125k → 9%THE CIRCLE OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET: $50k → 6%MIT POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT: $100k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100k → 16%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%THE ASPEN INSTITUTE: $100k → 14%US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $125k → 9%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250k → 8%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $50k → 11%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $1.0M → 8%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $50k → 16%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $250k → 8%THE PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $100k → 14%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $150k → 8%CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $250k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $114k → 8%NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%THE BOSTON FOUNDATION: $250k → 16%CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $100k → 14%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%BECHLER CANYON FUND - TBF: $200k → 16%AMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND: $75k → 14%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%THE BOSTON FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%GERMAN MARSHALL FUND: $100k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $333k → 16%SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $125k → 14%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST: $100k → 16%CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES: $100k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $250k → 16%CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES: $100k → 14%CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES: $100k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $300k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $100k → 14%MARET SCHOOL: $100k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $125k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $125k → 16%WGBH: $200k → 16%WGBH: $200k → 16%WGBH: $200k → 16%WGBH: $200k → 16%GBH: $75k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CO
MD
DC

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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 18 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+97%

Still filing today

78%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther

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

  • MS
    MARET SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $510k · revenue +26%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +22%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • NC
    NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • SF
    SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • MP
    MIT POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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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3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
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
11
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Magnetar Capital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Youth Ice Hockey ProgramsCommunity FoundationsSubstance Abuse TreatmentEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Government Accountability R…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr14%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr14%59%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,326

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
26/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WGBH — $800,000 · OtherWGBHMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $633,334 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $275,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL — $250,000 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALBECHLER CANYON FUND - TBF — $200,000 · OtherBECHLER CANYON FUND - TBFSIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL — $125,000 · OtherCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $300,000 · OtherCenter on Budget and Policy PrioritiesUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATI…Children's Hospital Corporation — $195,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Corporation+8 more — $510,000 · Other+8 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,889,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvar…MARET SCHOOL INC — $510,000 · EducationMARET SCHOOL INC+3 more — $45,000 · EducationTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK O…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FI…National Gallery of Art — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gal…ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STE…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $350,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 · Civil RightsAMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND — $83,250 · Civil RightsTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $450,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine Inc — $25,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentBoston Foundation Inc — $350,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $60,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $200,000 · InternationalTHE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES — $100,000 · InternationalTRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA) — $25,000 · International
Other$3,538,334Education$2,444,000Arts & Culture$965,000Civil Rights$633,250Environment$476,000Philanthropy$410,000International$325,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,889,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC — $510,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $450,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $350,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $195,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND — $83,250 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRUB STREET INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA) — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMagnetar Capital Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMEADOWBROOK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

National Philanthropi…The Rockefeller Found…Greater Washington Co…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Rockefeller Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Scott a Nathan Charitable Tr 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Scott a Nathan Charitable Tr?

Find your warmest path to Scott a Nathan Charitable Tr 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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