How much did THE COMPASS FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE COMPASS FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

youthdiseaseresearchlandresearchlandconservationpreservation

2020

diseaseresearchdisease researchlandlandconservationpreservation

2021

forestdiseaseresearchlandlandconservationresearchpreservation

2022

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2023

medicalresearchpost-secondaryeducationgeneralsupportearlyenvironmentalearlychildhoodeducationlandpreservation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k53 grants · $161k
$10k–50k12 grants · $208k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY$33,000
GRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE$25,000
THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$20,000
REAL AMERICAN HARDWOOD COALITION$20,000
LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC$17,000
SOUTHEAST LAND TRUST OF NH$15,000
THE COTTING SCHOOL$15,000
BROOKS SCHOOL$13,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$10,000
FRIENDS OF BIG ISLAND POND$10,000
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION$10,000
HARTWICK COLLEGE$8,000
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 84% of those 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 58 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+105%

Still filing today

60%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

GS
GRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE
6× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +134%
BS
BROOKS SCHOOL
6× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +28%
TC
THE COTTING SCHOOL
5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +7%

Funded once

TF
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDS VERMONT
one grant, 2022 · $11k
RA
REAL AMERICAN HARDWOOD COALITION
one grant, 2021 · $10k
BS
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +6%

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.

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

Land conservation in nantucket, massachusetts

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

Wildlands trust, inc. protects natural areas throughout southeastern massachusetts for the benefit of wildlife and people. we work to permanently protect and steward important habitats and landscapes that characterize the natural heritage…

Environment

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

Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment

Franklin Land Trust Inc

The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources

Environment

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Greater Worcester Land Trust

Land conservation

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc

Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.

Environment

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

Kestrel Land Trust Inc

Kestrel land trust inc. conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts, while nurturing an enduring love of the land.

Environment

Lakes Region Conservation Trust

Providing for the permanent protection, stewardship, and respectful use of lands that define the character of the Lakes Region and its quality of life.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Ships International. 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.

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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/67

the rest of the field

10%

4,108/42,291

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.

05the grantee network

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/63

Grantees still filing

52/63

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$799,450Environment$221,000Education$162,800Health$49,800Food & Nutrition$45,000Animals$40,000Human Services$30,500

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.

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.

French Fdn Tr UdeclPA28.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: French Fdn Tr Udecl · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Gateway Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00049 · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Ge Foundation · American Tower Charitable Foundation · Society for the Protection of New · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Boston Foundation 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 organisation THE COMPASS 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: GRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~40 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300008326 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 GRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 40 months of cash on hand.
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 Compass Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Compass Fund 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.

THE COMPASS FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Compass Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE COMPASS FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Compass Fund?

More from the funding graph