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The Boyce Foundation Samuel C Sichko Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$336k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$470kEducation$465kReligion$125kHuman Services$100kCivil Rights$52kArts & Culture$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Special Operations Fund$110,000
Mayo Clinic$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
St Paul Catholic Church$25,000
Seacoast Classical Academy$25,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$15,000
Fisher House Foundation$15,000
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation$10,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$10,000
Young America's Foundation$10,000
Andrew's Gift$10,000
Special Operations Memorial Foundation$10,000
Susan G Komen for the Cure$10,000
Tom Coughlin Jay Foundation$5,000
St Jude India ChildCare USA$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%HelpMate: $5k → 12%HelpMate: $5k → 12%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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MN
IL
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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
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Total granted

$1.0M
$2k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • SO
    Special Operations Fund
    5× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +23%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +49%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
6
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
7
St Marys Foundation for Children Inc

St. Marys Foundation for Children, Inc. is dedicated to the enhancement of health, safety and quality of life for children with special needs.

8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Military Officers Association of America Scholarship Fund

Provide interest-free loans and grants for undergraduate education to children of former, active, and retired commissioned or warrant officers of the seven uniformed services, and to children of active or retired enlisted members of the…

11
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
12
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Jude India Childcare Centres Usa. 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

10 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. 10 of the 21 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Paul Catholic Church — $120,000 · OtherSt Paul Catholic ChurchFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — $60,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterSusan G Komen for the Cure — $50,000 · OtherSusan G Komen for the CureYoung America's Foundation — $50,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationSeacoast Classical Academy — $25,000 · OtherCathedral Parish School — $20,000 · Other+5 more — $33,590 · Other+5 moreSpecial Operations Fund — $320,000 · EducationSpecial Operations FundPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS — $50,000 · EducationPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLSMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION …MAYO CLINIC — $250,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $60,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOS…ANDREWS GIFT — $50,000 · HealthANDREWS GIFTHELPMATE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA — $5,000 · International
Other$513,590Education$420,000Health$360,000Human Services$10,000International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSpecial Operations Fund — $320,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANDREWS GIFT — $50,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELPMATE INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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 Special Operations Fund
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds PERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ANDREWS GIFT
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds HELPMATE INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE INDIA CHILDCARE CENTRES USA

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Boyce Foundation Samuel C Sichko Trustee 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–40%
    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 Boyce Foundation Samuel C Sichko Trustee?

    Find your warmest path to The Boyce Foundation Samuel C Sichko Trustee 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 21 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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