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The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 at a glance

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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 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, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC$15,000
ULI FOUNDATION$15,000
THE GARDEN SCHOOL OF BEVERLY INC$15,000
IPSWICH REFUGEE PROGRAM$15,000
EL CENTRO HISPANO INC$15,000
Center for an Agricultural Economy$10,000
ESSEX COUNTY TRAIL ASSOCIATION$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
WALLA WALLA IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION$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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
NC
DC
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
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

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

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
  • SI
    SAFEART INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -18%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $42,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBEYOND NOW FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherBEYOND NOW FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY: $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMYUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $30,000 · OtherUPPER VALLEY HAVENTHE 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 & NutritionROOT NS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetIPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWORKING LANDSCAPES: $40,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN SCHOOL OF BEVERLY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $35,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDMONDS TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDA: $29,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSUNRISE FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOT NS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $20,000 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 budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAFEART INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIPSWICH REFUGEE PROGRAM INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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

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 The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 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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