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The Belle Buoy Foundation Inc

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.

$153k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$240kHealth$90kInternational$79kEducation$57kHousing & Shelter$35kPhilanthropy$23kEmployment$20kPublic Benefit$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $123k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUADALUPE CENTER$25,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$25,000
BOMA PROJECT$20,000
THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION$12,500
BRIDGES OUTREACH$10,005
THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN$10,000
MADISON AREA YMCA$10,000
MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE BALTUSROL FOUNDATION INC$5,000
NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION$5,000
WE MUST PROTECT$5,000
SHATTERPROOF$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $3k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $10k → 10%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $10k → 10%BRIDGES OUTREACH: $15k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%BRIDGES OUTREACH: $10k → 10%BRIDGES OUTREACH: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%GUADALUPE CENTER: $25k → 10%MADISON YMCA: $100k → 4%MADISON YMCA: $62k → 4%MADISON AREA YMCA: $10k → 4%MADISON AREA YMCA: $10k → 4%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 17%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

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
HI
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$452k · 17 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$452k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+55%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ
    4× · 2020–2025 · $182k · revenue +65%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +83%
  • TB
    THE BOMA PROJECT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +418%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TM
    THE MARINER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×45
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.

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Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
5
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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6
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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11
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
12
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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

30 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. 30 of the 42 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ: $182,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $35,005 · Human ServicesBRIDGES OUTREACH INCGuadalupe Center Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center IncTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC+3 more: $9,500 · Human ServicesMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $25,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHA…THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATI…THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHIL: $11,000 · OtherTHE SHELTER FOR ABU…THE MARINER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE MARINER FOUNDAT…NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL EATING DIS…MASS GEN HOSP CARING FOR A CURE: $5,000 · OtherTHE BALTUSROL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $20,850 · Other+10 moreTHE BOMA PROJECT INC: $45,000 · InternationalTHE BOMA PROJE…THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $8,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION…THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $6,000 · InternationalTHE HALO TRUST…BLUE MISSIONS GROUP INC: $5,300 · InternationalBLUE MISSIONS …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …International Rescue Committee INC: $4,500 · InternationalInternational …+2 more: $2,500 · InternationalSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…+1 more: $1,700 · EducationFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $20,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,700 · Health+2 more: $1,250 · HealthMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWe Must Protect Inc: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$271,505Other$99,350International$76,300Education$56,700Health$42,950Philanthropy$30,000Public Benefit$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ: $182,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOMA PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $35,005 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWe Must Protect Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE MISSIONS GROUP INC: $5,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANTPURE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROIC HEARTS PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Belle Buoy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Belle Buoy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bridges Outreach Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj: 1% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Belle Buoy Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Belle Buoy Foundation Inc 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 42 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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