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The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$292kEnvironment$159kEducation$99kInternational$87kHealth$84kHuman Services$74kCommunity Improvement$52kAnimals$35kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$409k
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
$4,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Newark Museum of Art$30,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Wilderness Inquiry$16,000
Lowcountry Food Bank$12,500
Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc$10,500
Hope for Haiti$10,000
Mascoma Valley Preservation$10,000
Enfield Shaker Museum$10,000
Planned Parenthood Southeast$7,500
CurePSP$6,500
Canaan Town Library$6,000
Arts Etc$6,000
Mascoma Royals Athletic Boosters$6,000
Community Food Bank of New Jersey$6,000
Kiawah Cares Foundation$6,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc: $8k → 14%Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc: $8k → 14%Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc: $11k → 14%Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc: $9k → 14%Second Wind Foundation: $3k → 9%Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc: $8k → 14%Second Wind Foundation: $3k → 9%Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc: $8k → 14%Faith's Lodge: $4k → 11%Faith's Lodge: $3k → 11%Faith's Lodge: $3k → 11%Faith's Lodge: $3k → 11%Faith's Lodge: $3k → 11%Child Loss Foundation: $4k → 11%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

VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL

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.
$1.3M · 51 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
7

Total granted

$1.3M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+41%

Still filing today

76%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +85%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue ×23
  • WI
    WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Grafton Library
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • KI
    Kiawah Island Community Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +41%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

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
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
2
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
3
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
4
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment
5
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
6
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
7
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
8
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
9
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

10
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
11
The Forest Park Conservancy

To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…

Environment
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Generation Hope. 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 backsteadyCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,519

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

42 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. 42 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
35/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Newark Museum — $60,000 · OtherNewark MuseumEnfield Shaker Museum — $59,000 · OtherEnfield Shaker MuseumCanaan Town Library — $36,000 · OtherCanaan Town LibraryPlanned Parenthood of Greater New Jersey Inc — $31,500 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Greater New Jersey IncLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $22,500 · OtherVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherTHE GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND — $17,500 · OtherMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION — $47,500 · OtherMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATIONCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $22,000 · Other+25 more — $180,000 · Other+25 moreTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $120,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIA…NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $106,500 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHE…ARTS ETC — $32,000 · Arts & CultureARTS ETCNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $17,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADI…ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc — $10,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $6,000 · Arts & CultureWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $91,000 · EnvironmentWILDERNESS IN…NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY CO…UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC — $24,000 · EnvironmentUPPER VALLEY …THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $10,500 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT C…VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC — $5,500 · Environment+1 more — $3,000 · EnvironmentGENERATION HOPE — $29,500 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $26,500 · EducationNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC — $21,000 · EducationColby-Sawyer College — $20,000 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $72,000 · InternationalGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA INC — $14,500 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $38,500 · HealthCUREPSP INC — $25,500 · HealthMASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $49,500 · Human ServicesCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION — $18,500 · Human ServicesSECOND WIND FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Human Services
Other$517,000Arts & Culture$292,000Environment$159,000Education$99,000International$86,500Health$84,000Human Services$74,000

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 budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $106,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $91,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $72,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $49,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION — $47,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $38,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARTS ETC — $32,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetGENERATION HOPE — $29,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCUREPSP INC — $25,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC — $24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC — $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetColby-Sawyer College — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION — $18,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND — $17,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST — $16,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA INC — $14,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHOME CARE & HOSPICE ASSOCIATION OF NJ — $13,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $12,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetKiawah Cares Foundation — $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY MARINE MAMMAL NETWORK — $11,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB — $9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND WIND FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrumbull Hall Troupe Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NORTHERN RAIL TRAIL — $4,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetKiawah Island Community Association Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK INVENTORS HALL OF FAME — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC
  • Who funds MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC
  • Who funds ARTS ETC
  • Who funds GENERATION HOPE
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL
  • Who funds CUREPSP INC
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
  • Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC
  • Who funds MASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC
  • Who funds Colby-Sawyer College
  • Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC
  • Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST
  • Who funds GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA INC
  • Who funds HOME CARE & HOSPICE ASSOCIATION OF NJ
  • Who funds WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation
  • Who funds Vermont Public Radio
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY MARINE MAMMAL NETWORK
  • Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc
  • Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY 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 Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & BloomNJ26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom · The Vermont Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Crowell Family Foundation 7522-Xxxxxx00058 · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Turrell Fund · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson 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 Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs 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 · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Second Wind Foundation85% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra21% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc4% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc4% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc2% of income from government
  • Wellfleet Historical Society Inc0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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Find your warmest path to The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs 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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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