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Social Tinkering Corp

To build thriving communities by empowering connections and growing happiness.

$119k
Granted FY2023
7
Itemized grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$115k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$16,670
Largest grant, FY2023
$22,775
States reached, FY2023
1

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rutland County Pride$22,775128%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$18,75010%
Rutland City Public Schools$18,4621n/a
Vermont Cares$16,67011%
Euphoric Hair Experience$14,8461n/a
Come Alive Outside$12,58613%
Arc Rutland Area Inc$10,62119%

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 Vermont Community FoundationVT15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Social Tinkering Corp?

Find your warmest path to Social Tinkering Corp 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.

About Social Tinkering Corp

How much does Social Tinkering Corp give?
Social Tinkering Corp reported 7 itemized grants totaling $114,710, out of $119,149 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Social Tinkering Corp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (37%), Civil Rights (36%), Education (16%).
Who are Social Tinkering Corp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Rutland County Pride ($23k), NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($19k), Rutland City Public Schools ($18k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Social Tinkering Corp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
Where is Social Tinkering Corp based?
Social Tinkering Corp is based in VT.

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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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