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The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$248kFood & Nutrition$163kHuman Services$135kHealth$102kCommunity Improvement$94kEducation$88kHousing & Shelter$88kYouth Development$76kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
$7,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAFI - USA$15,000
SUSU COMMUNITY FARM$15,000
IPSWICH REFUGEE PROGRAM$15,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC$15,000
ULI FOUNDATION$15,000
EL CENTRO HISPANO INC$15,000
THE GARDEN SCHOOL OF BEVERLY INC$15,000
ESSEX COUNTY TRAIL ASSOCIATION$10,000
Center for an Agricultural Economy$10,000
TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS COMMUNITY FARM$7,000
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST$5,000
MAINE CANCER FOUNDATION$3,000
GRASSROOTS ECOLOGY$1,000
THE AGRIHOOD COLLECTIVE$1,000
WORK TO RIDE$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFEART INC: $15k → 10%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $20k → 11%HISPANIC LAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $10k → 9%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $15k → 11%HISPANIC LAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $10k → 9%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION IN: $10k → 10%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $10k → 9%WINDRUSH FARM: $7k → 10%HISPANIC LAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $5k → 9%IPSWICH REFUGEE PROGRAM: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
NC
DC
FL

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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$872k · 36 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
24

Total granted

$872k
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+3%

Still filing today

81%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • MW
    MILK WITH DIGNITY STANDARDS COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +21%
  • WL
    WORKING LANDSCAPES
    3× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +328%
  • IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +451%

Funded once

  • VC
    VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -45%
  • MC
    MGH CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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.

1
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
2
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
4
All Farmers Inc

We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…

Food & Nutrition
5
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
6
Terracorps Inc

To prepare and mobilize emerging leaders to help communities gain access to and conserve land for people and nature.

Environment
7
Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation

To preserve the rural new england character of williamstown, ma and surrounding areas for future generations; enable working landscapes including farms and forests; promote land stewardship.

Environment
8
Liberation Ecosystem Inc

To cultivate connection, share resources, and amplify the voices of people of color in vermont within the focus areas of land, environ- ment, agriculture, and foodways. liberation ecosystem, inc. is a col- laborative ecosystem for growing…

Food & Nutrition
9
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust

The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…

Food & Nutrition
10
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
11
East Quabbin Land Trust Inc

To foster the sustainable use of our natural and historic resources for the benefit of all generations through the conservation and stewardship of the farmlands, woodlands, and water in our region of massachusetts.

Environment
12
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Ipswich Refugee Program Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Community FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsEquine Therapy ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $42,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY — $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMYUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $30,000 · OtherUPPER VALLEY HAVENBEYOND NOW FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherBEYOND NOW FOUNDATIONTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC — $22,000 · OtherVERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC — $20,000 · OtherKeeping Track Inc — $22,500 · OtherEDMONDS TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDA — $29,500 · OtherEDMONDS TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDAEssex Art Center Inc — $17,500 · Other+30 more — $266,500 · Other+30 moreLEARNING OUTSIDE INC — $55,000 · EnvironmentLEARNING OUTSIDE INCIPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · EnvironmentIPSWICH RIVER WATERSHE…THE GARDEN SCHOOL OF BEVERLY INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN SCHOOL OF B…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON …LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE IN…CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR AN AGRICULT…SHELBURNE FARMS — $10,000 · Environment+3 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentMILK WITH DIGNITY STANDARDS COUNCIL INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementMILK WITH DI…WORKING LANDSCAPES — $40,000 · Community ImprovementWORKING LAND…EL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO HI…SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesSUSU COMMUN…HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY — $35,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC LI…WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FA…SAFEART INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSAFEART INCIPSWICH REFUGEE PROGRAM INCORPORATED — $15,000 · Human ServicesIPSWICH REF…Transplanting Traditions Community Farm — $22,000 · Food & NutritionTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionROOT NS INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $2,000 · Food & NutritionROSIE'S PLACE INC — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSUNRISE FUND INC — $25,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $20,000 · HealthMaine Cancer Foundation — $3,000 · Health
Other$510,000Environment$235,000Community Improvement$130,000Human Services$117,000Food & Nutrition$64,000Housing & Shelter$60,000Health$48,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILK WITH DIGNITY STANDARDS COUNCIL INC — $60,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLEARNING OUTSIDE INC — $55,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWORKING LANDSCAPES — $40,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetIPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GARDEN SCHOOL OF BEVERLY INC — $35,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY — $35,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDMONDS TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDA — $29,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetSUNRISE FUND INC — $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm — $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetVERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROOT NS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEssex Art Center Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEART INC — $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetIPSWICH REFUGEE PROGRAM INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSecond Growth Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS ECOLOGY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Vermont Community…Boston Foundation IncEssex County Communit…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Lintilhac Foundation …Institution for Savin…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Clif Family FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncTriangle Community Fo…People's United Commu…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT23.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts 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 organization The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
  • High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Susu Community Farm Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Montserrat College of Art Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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.

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How do I get to The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606?

Find your warmest path to The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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