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Teal Pond Foundation

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.

$263k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$620kEnvironment$83kInternational$36kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$6kScience & Tech$5kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$100,000
OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL INC$50,000
THE COALITION FOR BUZZARDS BAY$25,000
NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL$25,000
DANA HALL SCHOOL$21,000
DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST$15,000
GOOD NATURED LEARNING$5,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$5,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE$5,000
HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC$5,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$1,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF BOSTON$1,000
THE RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL INC$1,000
NURTURING MINDS INC$1,000
HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DANA HALL SCHOOL: $21k → 7%OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL INC: $88k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%DANA HALL SCHOOL: $20k → 7%CODMAN FARM: $20k → 8%OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL INC: $84k → 11%THE MATCH SCHOOL: $25k → 16%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%LUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $5k → 9%GOOD NATURED LEARNING: $5k → 11%DANA HALL SCHOOL: $20k → 7%CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS: $10k → 8%OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL INC: $83k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $100k → 17%HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 11%CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS: $5k → 8%OUR SISTERS SCHOOL (ANNUAL FUND): $57k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $100k → 17%GOOD NATURED LEARNING: $5k → 11%OUR SISTERS SCHOOL (ANNUAL FUND): $50k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $100k → 17%OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL INC: $50k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $75k → 17%OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL INC: $50k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY (HSS): $75k → 17%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $150k → 8%OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL INC: $50k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY (HSS): $75k → 17%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $150k → 8%OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL INC: $50k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $75k → 17%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $150k → 8%THE COALITION FOR BUZZARDS BAY: $25k → 11%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $26k → 8%THE COALITION FOR BUZZARDS BAY: $5k → 11%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $25k → 8%THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $5k → 17%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $25k → 8%DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST: $25k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $25k → 8%DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST: $5k → 11%NASHOBA BROOKS ANNUAL FUND: $25k → 8%DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST: $5k → 11%NASHOBA BROOKS ANNUAL FUND: $25k → 8%DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST: $15k → 11%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 20 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$2.1M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+41%

Still filing today

70%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • NB
    NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $551k · revenue +4%
  • OS
    OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +52%
  • DANA HALL SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MATCH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CF
    CODMAN FARM
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +57%
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
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
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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
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
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
8
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
9
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council 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

25 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. 25 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $551,000 · EducationNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INCOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $455,000 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCHOOLDANA HALL SCHOOL: $70,500 · EducationDANA HALL SCHOOL+10 more: $106,000 · Education+10 moreHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $450,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY (HSS): $150,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY (HSS)OUR SISTERS SCHOOL (ANNUAL FUND): $106,500 · OtherOUR SISTERS SCHOOL (ANNUAL FUND)NASHOBA BROOKS ANNUAL FUND: $50,000 · OtherNASHOBA BROOKS ANNUAL FUNDTHE COALITION FOR BUZZARDS BAY: $32,000 · Other+12 more: $60,500 · Other+12 moreDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC: $51,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $27,000 · InternationalPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $19,000 · Food & NutritionWAYFINDERS ON THE HUDSON CORP: $1,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,182,500Other$849,000Environment$62,000International$27,000Philanthropy$21,000Food & Nutrition$19,000Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $551,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $455,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL: $70,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC: $51,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $36,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $19,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGOOD NATURED LEARNING: $11,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYFINDERS ON THE HUDSON CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCONCORD YOUTH THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NATURED LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYFINDERS ON THE HUDSON CORP ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD YOUTH THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncGs Donor Advised Phil…Fidelity FoundationVanguard Charitable E…The Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Teal Pond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Teal Pond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 38 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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