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Sedgwick Family Charitable Tr at a glance

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Sedgwick Family 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.

$209k
Granted FY2022
59
Grants FY2022
16
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$55kEnvironment$46kHealth$42kArts & Culture$37kFood & Nutrition$33kPublic Benefit$27kEducation$12kEmployment$11kOther$0
02FY2022 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k53 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
$2,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERS$26,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$12,500
S T E P S INC$12,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$11,500
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$10,000
FEEDMORE$10,000
BRIDGERCARE$8,000
ALIGHT$7,000
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDEN$6,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC$6,000
JOHNS MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,500
INTERNATIONAL FDN FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS$5,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL$5,000
FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICA FDN$5,000
LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $3k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%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

ME
MT
MN
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AR
DC
MS
GA
FL
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 8 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$107k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+56%

Still filing today

75%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22
InternationalArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TR
    THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $46k · revenue +54%
  • FM
    FEED MORE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +29%
  • NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
    2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SI
    STEPS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • GL
    GENNADIUS LIBRARY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
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
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
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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6
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
7
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
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
11
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
12
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Steps Inc. 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

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 73 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEPS INC: $10,000 · OtherSTEPS INCBRIDGERCARE: $8,000 · OtherBRIDGERCARECENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS: $6,000 · OtherJOHNS MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5,500 · OtherGENNADIUS LIBRARY: $5,000 · OtherST JOHNS MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EV: $5,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $5,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY: $5,000 · OtherLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherForeign Policy For America Foundation: $5,000 · Other+33 more: $49,500 · Other+33 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,500 · InternationalInternational Resc…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…ALIGHT: $7,000 · InternationalALIGHTINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS: $5,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL FOUN…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITC…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,500 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH INC: $2,500 · InternationalCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS: $2,000 · InternationalThe Foundation for a Civil Society LTD: $2,000 · International+7 more: $5,200 · International+7 moreTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $46,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOSEVEL…FEED MORE INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE I…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL T…VPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA …METROPOLITAN CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLIT…MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $650 · Arts & CultureSTEPS INC: $12,000 · HealthSTEPS INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $11,500 · HealthPLANNED P…+1 more: $800 · HealthTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $4,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$114,000International$49,700Animals$46,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Arts & Culture$27,150Health$24,300Crime & Legal$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGERCARE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALIGHT: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForeign Policy For America Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Foundation for a Civil Society LTD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLING HANDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA: $650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCION INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE YEAR IN ATHENS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTOVER SCHOOL INC: $200 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 Community Foundat…The William & Flora H…The US Charitable Gif…Ge Aerospace Foundati…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
The Community Foundation IncVA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Sedgwick Family 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 73 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $197k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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