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The Argus Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$684k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Arts & Culture$456kAnimals$345kFood & Nutrition$297kHealth$284kInternational$220kEnvironment$216kHousing & Shelter$175kScience & Tech$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $496k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL CARE INTERNATIONAL$65,000
CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE$50,000
NAVAJOHOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP$45,000
THE COUNTY THEATRE$40,250
SNIPES FARM & EDUCATION CENTER$40,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$40,000
AMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS$35,000
SEACOLOGY$30,000
THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$30,000
US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$30,000
THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK$25,000
THE TOWERS FOUNDATION$25,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE$20,000
LINCOLN CENTER$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NAVAJOHOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%YELLOWSTONE FOREVER INSTITUTE: $30k → 10%BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP: $50k → 6%BLACK DOCTORS CONSORTIUM: $30k → 22%US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $30k → 10%SEACOLOGY: $40k → 10%THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $30k → 10%MAUI FIRE FUND: $21k → 9%THE TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%LINCOLN CENTER: $30k → 17%NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $50k → 14%HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ECKERD COLLEGE: $35k → 12%REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $36k → 13%CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $100k → 12%WBGO RADIO: $35k → 16%MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL: $130k → 8%NAVAJOHOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP: $45k → 6%MEDICAL CARE INTERNATIONAL: $65k → 22%US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $30k → 10%SEACOLOGY: $30k → 10%THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $25k → 10%LINCOLN CENTER: $20k → 17%NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $40k → 14%CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $50k → 12%NAVAJOHOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP: $30k → 6%BLACK DOCTORS CONSORTIUM: $30k → 22%US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $20k → 10%NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $40k → 14%CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $50k → 12%NAVAJOHOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%MEDICAL CARE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 22%CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $25k → 12%THE COUNTY THEATRE: $100k → 6%THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $30k → 8%THE COUNTY THEATRE: $40k → 6%TRINITY CENTER FOR URBAN LIFE: $21k → 22%THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $30k → 8%THE COUNTY THEATRE: $40k → 6%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $25k → 22%AMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS: $35k → 6%AMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS: $25k → 6%SNIPES FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $50k → 6%SNIPES FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $40k → 6%SNIPES FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $40k → 6%SNIPES FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $25k → 6%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

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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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 32 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
8

Total granted

$2.3M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+37%

Still filing today

59%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CT
    COUNTY THEATER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • NH
    NAVAJO HOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +43%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MC
    MEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $130k
  • CA
    CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • RE
    REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue +178%

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
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
2
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
3
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
4
National Ecological Observatory Network Inc

To enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species on continental-scale ecology by providing support for infrastructure and consistent methodologies to support research and…

Recreation & Sports
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
8
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
9
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

10
The Institute for Bird Populations

The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.

Animals
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Audubon Nature Institute Inc. 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 backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Health CentersPregnancy Support ServicesWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Government Accountability R…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Cancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Land Conservation Organizat…Community Arts Organizations
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%54%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,540

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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC — $140,000 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INCMEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL — $130,000 · OtherMEDICAL CARE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONALSEACOLOGY — $100,000 · OtherSEACOLOGYCONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $100,000 · OtherCONSCIOUS ALLIANCEAMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS — $90,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANSMEDICAL CARE INTERNATIONAL — $90,000 · OtherMEDICAL CARE INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient — $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWORKING DOGS FOR CONSERVATION — $55,000 · OtherYELLOWSTONE FOREVER INSTITUTE — $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · Other+17 more — $311,400 · Other+17 moreCOUNTY THEATER INC — $200,250 · Arts & CultureCOUNTY THEATER INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $150,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO IN…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE P…+1 more — $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $90,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE …THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $90,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID S…WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $85,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CO…Audubon Nature Institute Inc — $15,000 · AnimalsAudubon Nat…NAVAJO HOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · HealthNAVAJO HOP…HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · HealthHANLEY CEN…FRAXA Research Foundation Inc — $19,000 · HealthFRAXA Rese…SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $155,000 · EducationSNIPES FAR…Eckerd College — $65,000 · EducationEckerd Col…ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE INC — $25,000 · EducationALMOST HOM…THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $125,000 · Food & NutritionREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $36,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,201,400Arts & Culture$584,750Animals$280,000Health$249,000Education$245,000Food & Nutrition$125,000Recreation & Sports$36,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOUNTY THEATER INC — $200,250 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetNAVAJO HOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetSNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $155,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC — $140,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEACOLOGY — $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS — $90,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE INC — $25,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $21,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY CENTER FOR URBAN LIFE — $20,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetFRAXA Research Foundation Inc — $19,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTBA FUND INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY NP — $4,500 over 4y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds COUNTY THEATER INC
  • Who funds NAVAJO HOPI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SNIPES FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC
  • Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE
  • Who funds SEACOLOGY
  • Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
  • Who funds Eckerd College
  • Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE INC
  • Who funds THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds TRINITY CENTER FOR URBAN LIFE
  • Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc
  • Who funds TBA FUND INC

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 Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Marvin and Dee Woodall Charitable Foundation · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Argus Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Eckerd College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Argus Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Argus Fund 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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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