How much did T BACKER FUND INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of T BACKER FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

valleyconcertsdance

2019

farmconcertsdance

2020

farmfood pantrydance

2021

food pantrydance

2022

food pantry

2023

nassautheatrefood pantrymuseum

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $72k
$10k–50k15 grants · $231k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC$60,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$35,000
TIME AND SPACE LIMITED THEATRE CO INC$22,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$20,000
CRADNELL THEATRE INC$20,000
COLUMBIA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$20,000
YOU CAN VOTE$20,000
MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$12,000
CAMBRIDGE CITY - MAKERSPACE PROGRAM$11,500
TIDES FOUNDATION$10,000
ACADEMY OF CHARLEMONT$10,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT$10,000
COLUMBIA - GREENE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
TWIN COUNTY RECOVERY SERVICES$10,000
COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of T BACKER FUND INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

T BACKER FUND INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.7M · 86 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

86 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+167%

Still filing today

49%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionInternationalRecreation & SportsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

BC
BENNINGTON COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +18%
TIDES FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +23%
CT
CRANDELL THEATRE
6× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +72%

Funded once

RE
RICH EARTH INSTITUTEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +167%
SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +171%
OI
OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Westchester Philharmonic Inc

Innovative concerts with a commitment to education, community, and diversity.

Arts & Culture

Artpark & Company Inc

Artpark & company manages the programming of artpark state park. artpark & company is the largest cultural institution in niagara county which provides a variety of artistic and cultural programs in a natural setting. artpark presents a…

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Syracuse Opera Company Inc

Production of professional opera performances

Arts & Culture

Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Hudson Yards Development Corporation

Manages the implementation of the city of new york's economic initiatives for the redevelopment of the hudson yards area of manhattan, including extension of no. 7 subway to west 34th st, construction of public amenities including parks…

Community Improvement

Ht Dance Company Inc

H.T. Dance Company Inc./Chen Dance Center's programs and activities reflect its ongoing mission to provide moving experiences in Asian-American arts and contemporary dance through artistic creation, arts education, and presentation.

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Rockaway Film Festival

Rockaway film festival presents cinema and other arts at the coastal edge of new york city, joining artists and audiences for unique collective experiences.

Arts & Culture

North Country Center for the Arts Inc

A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire

Arts & Culture

Historic Hudson Valley

Hhv celebrates the history and culture of the hudson valley.

Arts & Culture

Chamber Music Society of New Paltz Inc

The organization's activity is to provide chamber music concerts to the communities in the hudson valley area. the concerts will further the organization's exempt purposes by bringing visual and musical arts together for the general public.

Arts & Culture

New York City Center Inc

The 2022-2023 season has been momentous for new york city center. fresh off our previous celebratory reopening season, city center stood at a critical juncture where it would navigate a significant leadership transition and sweeping…

Arts & Culture

The Bronx Council On the Arts

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and builds strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harmony Project Hudson Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/59

the rest of the field

3,157/36,395

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/51

Grantees still filing

41/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,641,918Environment$515,500Education$267,900Arts & Culture$259,200Philanthropy$55,000International$51,050Civil Rights$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hrbt FoundationNY48.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hrbt Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community · Bank of Greene County · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Eugene M Lang Foundation · The Arthur and Eileen Newman Family · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy · The Alexander and Marjorie · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Eutopia Foundation · Patricia E Phelan and Joseph W Phelan · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation T BACKER FUND INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +87% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 141819562 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to T Backer Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to T Backer Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

T BACKER FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to T Backer Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

T BACKER FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to T Backer Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph