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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%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%CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $100k → 14%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%THE BOSTON FOUNDATION: $250k → 16%NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $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
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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CO
MD
DC
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+96%

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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STE…National Gallery of Art: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gal…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $350,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $100,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetMagnetar Capital Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGRUB STREET INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA): $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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
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.

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

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 Scott a Nathan Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott a Nathan Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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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