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The Constable Foundation

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.

$109k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$361kEnvironment$130kCivil Rights$107kHuman Services$78kInternational$27kScience & Tech$19kHealth$16kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$50,000
EARTHWATCH$20,000
MAGNITSKY JUSTICE FOUNDATIONQ$20,000
FOSTER PARROTS LTD$5,000
IFOPA - INTL FIBRODYSPLASIA OSSIFIC$3,000
CICHAZ USA$2,500
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE$2,500
THE ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SCO$2,500
HARBOR HOUSING COMMUNITY SERVICE CE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

US giving: 74% of grant dollars ($580k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 26% that went abroad ($200k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $500 → 12%THE FAMILY RESTORED: $1k → 7%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $500 → 12%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $200 → 12%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $100 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $100 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $100 → 16%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

ME
NH
ID
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
DC
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 26% of all-years giving ($200k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$122k · 7 grants
Ethiopia$77k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$663k · 45 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
21

Total granted

$663k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+10%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsScience & TechOther
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

  • AB
    American Bird Conservancy
    5× · 2020–2024 · $319k · revenue +84%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +243%
  • THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • BC
    BIRD CONSERVATION FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • SI
    SOLOMON ISLANDS CONSER PROJ
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIV OF ROCHESTER - BIOLOGY RESEARCH FD
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

1
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
2
Rainforest Trust

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

International
3
Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.

Animals
4
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
7
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
8
Environment Now
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9
The Nature Conservancy

The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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10
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
11
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
12
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildearth Guardians; the most unlike its peers is Seal Cove Auto Museum. 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

36 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. 36 of the 71 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERS FOR CHANGE ETHOPIA: $86,733 · OtherPARTNERS FOR CHANGE ETHOPIAJerusalem Children and Community De: $77,316 · OtherJerusalem Children and Community DeEARTHWATCH: $37,000 · OtherEARTHWATCHMOROCCAN CHILDREN'S TRUST: $26,718 · OtherMOROCCAN CHILDREN'S TRUSTBIRD CONSERVATION FUND: $17,000 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $16,200 · OtherSOLOMON ISLANDS CONSER PROJ: $15,000 · OtherUNIV OF ROCHESTER - BIOLOGY RESEARCH FD: $14,800 · Other+39 more: $81,955 · Other+39 moreAmerican Bird Conservancy: $318,986 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy+1 more: $6,709 · AnimalsNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $15,183 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $3,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,200 · Environment+10 more: $2,730 · EnvironmentMAGNITSKY JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $8,000 · HealthMulti-Service Eating Disorders Associations Inc: $2,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · HealthEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC: $12,924 · Science & TechKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$372,722Animals$325,695Environment$28,113Civil Rights$20,000Health$13,000Science & Tech$12,924Arts & Culture$7,600

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 budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $318,986 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAGNITSKY JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $16,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $15,183 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC: $12,924 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD: $6,709 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMulti-Service Eating Disorders Associations Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Club of Sierra County: $1,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY RESTORED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRestore The North Woods Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $80 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds MAGNITSKY JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds REWILD ↗
  • Who funds KIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Multi-Service Eating Disorders Associations Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Club of Sierra County ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncAbbVie FoundationNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Constable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Constable Foundation. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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