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THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION
Restoration of the american chestnut tree
$187k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
5
Communities
$68k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$2.0MEnvironment$227kOther$1.1M
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
2019
resource
2020
studentsresource
2021
resource
2022
resource
2023
clemsonresource
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$68,264
- UNIV OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$31,809
- PA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT$25,000
- VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$16,670
- CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$14,017
- UNIVERSITY OF NC ASHEVILLE$5,977
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% of your 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.
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.
$3.1M · 12 repeat orgs$138k 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 +16% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
6
Total granted
$3.1M
$107k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+46%
+16%
Still filing today
42%
17%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% 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
EducationEnvironmentOther
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
- ECESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +131%
- UOUNIV OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +79%
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE2× · 2018–2024 · $202k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $45k
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +16%
- PUPURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $12k
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.
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Norwich University
Norwich's mission is to give our youth an education that shall be american in its character.
Education
2
North Carolina State University
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
Education
3
University of Scranton
The university of scranton is a catholic and jesuit university dedicated to education.
Education
4
New England College
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Education
5
University of Northwestern Ohio
The university of northwestern ohio is an entrepreneurial, not-for-profit institution of higher learning, preparing students for careers and productive citizenship.
Education
6
Niagara University
Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives though programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.
Education
7
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
8
Northeastern University
Education
9
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is an institution of higher education dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. It operates Wake Forest College, a graduate school of arts and sciences, a…
Education
10
Eastern University
Eastern University is a diverse, Christ-centered community preparing graduates to impact the world through faith, reason, and justice.
Education
11
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Mission of the research foundation for the state university of new york: a. to assist in developing and increasing the facilities of the state university of new york to provide more extensive educational opportunities for and service to…
Education
12
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University transforms the lives of students. Our success is defined by our students' success. By relentlessly challenging the status quo and providing the best support in higher education, Southern New Hampshire…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of New England. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,958,400Other$1,063,575Environment$226,552
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.
- Who funds ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUN ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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. 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: PA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 251654234 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 PA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% 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 The American Chestnut Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The American Chestnut Foundation 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.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines