How much does Singing Field Foundation Inc give?

Singing Field Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $274,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.

What does Singing Field Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Philanthropy (10%), Animals (7%).

Who are Singing Field Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Clean Water Fund ($395k), Sierra Club Foundation ($360k), Environmental Grantmakers Association ($160k).

Does Singing Field Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Singing Field Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Singing Field Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Threshold Foundation.

Where is Singing Field Foundation Inc based?

Singing Field Foundation Inc is based in MA.

Singing Field Foundation Inc

Singing Field Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Singing Field Foundation Inc

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.

$275k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$1.5MPhilanthropy$231kAnimals$174kArts & Culture$169kHuman Services$152kInternational$57kCivil Rights$38kHousing & Shelter$31kOther$0

02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $87k
$10k–50k13 grants · $188k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$25,000
CLEAN WATER FUND	$25,000
YALE SCHOOL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT	$24,000
LEBANON OPERA HOUSE	$16,000
COMMONWEAL	$15,000
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK OF TURTLE ISLAND	$12,500
AS YOU SOW	$10,000
MSPCAANGELL	$10,000
BARGEMUSIC	$10,000
NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND	$10,000
CONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY	$10,000
YANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE	$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK	$10,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATIONAL FUND	$7,500
COMMUNITY WATER CENTER	$7,500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Singing Field Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Singing Field Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 37 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+18%

Still filing today

95%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

CW
CLEAN WATER FUND
6× · 2018–2024 · $395k · revenue +17%
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION
6× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +4%
COMMONWEAL
6× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +116%

Funded once

PV
PIONEER VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue +87%
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC
one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +5%
RS
Reunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -5%

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.

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

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

Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment

Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment

International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment

Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment

Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment

Good Work Institute Inc

The charitable activities of the Good Work Institute are designed to strengthen collaboration; address legacies of unequal power; and encourage a transition to regenerative ecological and social systems.

Human Services

Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; the most unlike its peers is International Child Art Foundation. 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

55 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. 55 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/55

Grantees still filing

43/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$1,171,370Other$482,254Philanthropy$219,342Human Services$168,500Animals$148,500Arts & Culture$147,000Education$84,500

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

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.

ImpactassetsincMD21.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Threshold Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Center for Economic Democracy Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Novo Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · New Venture Fund

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 Singing Field Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Singing Field Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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