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Sylvanus Charitable Trust Co McGilloway Ray Brown & Kaufman at a glance

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Sylvanus Charitable Trust Co McGilloway Ray Brown & Kaufman

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$130kAnimals$99kHealth$15k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$15,000
CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST$8,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHANTI PROJECT: $5k → 7%MUTTVILLE: $2k → 10%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $15k → 12%SPCA OF WESTCHESTER: $5k → 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $8k → 28%CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST: $8k → 15%SHANTI PROJECT: $5k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 10%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $15k → 12%SPCA OF WESTCHESTER: $5k → 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $8k → 28%CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST: $7k → 15%SHANTI PROJECT: $5k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 10%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $15k → 12%SPCA OF WESTCHESTER: $4k → 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $7k → 28%CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST: $7k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 10%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $15k → 12%CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST: $7k → 15%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $10k → 12%CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST FOR DAPU: $7k → 15%VENTANA WILDERNESS SANCTUARY: $8k → 12%VENTANA WILDERNESS SANCTUARY: $8k → 12%VENTANA WILDERNESS SANCTUARY: $8k → 12%FRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ANIMAL SERVICE: $4k → 12%FRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ANIMAL SERVICE: $4k → 12%FRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ANIMAL SERVICE: $3k → 12%PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $5k → 12%PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $5k → 12%PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $5k → 12%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$221k · 9 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$221k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • MC
    MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $70k
  • CF
    CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $29k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $24k

Funded once

  • SF
    Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • CF
    CONSERVATION FORCE TRUST FOR DAPU
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • WD
    WONDER DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -61%
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
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
2
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
3
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
4
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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5
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
6
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
7
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
8
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
9
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
10
Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter

We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.

Animals
11
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
12
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $70,000 · OtherMIDDLEBURY COLLEGECONSERVATION FORCE TRUST: $29,000 · OtherCONSERVATION FORCE TRUSTIndividual grant recipient: $23,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHANTI PROJECT: $14,500 · OtherSHANTI PROJECTCONSERVATION FORCE TRUST FOR DAPU: $7,000 · OtherWildlife Conservation Society: $23,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation SocietySAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $21,000 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $15,000 · AnimalsPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUESPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $14,000 · AnimalsSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INCFRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ANIMAL SERVICES: $11,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ANIMAL SERVICESSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $8,000 · AnimalsSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anima…WONDER DOG RESCUE: $4,500 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · Animals
Other$144,000Animals$98,500

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 budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ANIMAL SERVICES: $11,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWONDER DOG RESCUE: $4,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $2,000 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.

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Kinnoull Foundation Co McGilloway Ray Brown & KaufmanCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Sylvanus Charitable Trust Co McGilloway Ray Brown & Kaufman funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sylvanus Charitable Trust Co McGilloway Ray Brown & Kaufman. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Sylvanus Charitable Trust Co McGilloway Ray Brown & Kaufman 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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