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The Couch Family 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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
106
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$605k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$6.9MEducation$4.4MHealth$4.1MPhilanthropy$2.2MArts & Culture$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.1MYouth Development$919kOther$0
02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k64 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.7M
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$123M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - ECEA$605,000
CARSEY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY UNIVERSITY SYSTEM$536,500
NEW FUTURES$500,000
MOMSRISING$491,500
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (NHCF)$280,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND$250,000
WAYPOINT$205,000
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT$199,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE$128,000
THE FAMILY PLACE$125,000
TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$125,000
MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER$101,468
SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER$100,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILD CARE ADVISORY COUNCILMERRIMACK$100,000
ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER$100,000
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 (FY19–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $100k → 9%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $100k → 10%SPRINGFIELD PARENT CHILD CENTER: $60k → 9%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $60k → 9%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $50k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $70k → 11%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 8%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $50k → 9%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $50k → 9%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $30k → 9%MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION: $43k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY (CAPSC): $42k → 9%TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $125k → 10%WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER: $30k → 10%TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $125k → 10%TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $125k → 10%BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%WISE: $75k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $50k → 10%TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $77k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES: $50k → 9%TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $74k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $45k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $45k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $40k → 10%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $50k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $30k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $50k → 10%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $50k → 10%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $25k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $45k → 10%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $30k → 10%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $25k → 10%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $25k → 10%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 10%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 10%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $25k → 10%WINDSOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $30k → 9%MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $50k → 9%MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $31k → 9%MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 9%MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25k → 9%COMMUNITY FOR WOODSTOCK: $25k → 9%CRADLE AND CRAYON: $75k → 10%CRADLE AND CRAYON: $50k → 10%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
NC
DC
TX
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 171 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

171 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 105 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

171
166

Total granted

$19M
$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • NF
    NEW FUTURES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +11%
  • W
    WAYPOINT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $872k · revenue +47%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY PLACE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $631k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • FD
    FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    one grant, 2023 · $379k
  • IH
    ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +71%

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
Mountain Village Charter School

Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.

Education
2
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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3
Nurture and Nature Children's Center Inc

In partnership with families, we as an educational community, foster learning in a nurturing, supportive, child-centered environment immersed in nature. we teach, respect and celebrate diversity, individuality, and the whole child.

Human Services
4
Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation

Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…

Employment
5
Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

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6
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Nh Civics

Develop, nurture and maintain an informed, engaged, and civil new hampshire citizenry.

Education
8
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
9
Spring Hill Center Dba Spring Hill Children's Center

Spring hill children's center offers year-round nature-based, waldorf-inspired early childhood care programs for ages 3-6 in new hampshire's monadnock region. at spring hill children are given the space and time to truly live into their…

Education
10
Robins Nest Children's Center

Robins Nest Childrens Center provides high-quality early care and education in a play-based setting.

Human Services
11
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
12
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits and the most unlike its peers is Lebanon Outing Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%11%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr17%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr17%24%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/212
the rest of the field
9%
729/8,528

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

208 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 208 of the 370 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
69
Early backer (in before they grew)
202/208
Grantees still filing
157/208
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $745,400 · OtherEARLY CARE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $630,926 · OtherEARLY CARE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - ECEA — $605,000 · OtherCARSEY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY UNIVERSITY SYSTEM — $536,500 · OtherMT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER — $535,666 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND — $500,000 · OtherMOMSRISING — $491,500 · Other+110 more — $9,533,132 · Other+110 moreWAYPOINT — $871,832 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTTLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $526,480 · Human ServicesTLC FAMILY RESOUR…SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER — $430,340 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD AREA …Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — $285,000 · Human ServicesOrange County Par…CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY — $220,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S CENTER…Grafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc — $159,000 · Human ServicesWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC — $135,000 · Human Services+20 more — $1,363,615 · Human Services+20 moreNEW FUTURES INC — $1,050,000 · HealthNEW FUTURE…WEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC — $365,000 · HealthWEST CENTR…Public Health Council of the Upper Valley — $218,496 · HealthPublic Hea…NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $150,000 · HealthNEW HAMPSH…Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital — $131,113 · HealthMary Hitch…Headrest Inc — $95,000 · Health+6 more — $295,000 · Health+6 moreCLAREMONT LEARNING PARTNERSHIP — $388,891 · EducationCLAREMONT…FOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC — $260,000 · EducationFOUNDATIO…NEW HAMPSHIRE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $222,750 · EducationNEW HAMPS…CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $175,000 · EducationCHILDREN'…NEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR NONPROFITS — $135,000 · EducationNEW HAMPS…MAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $125,000 · EducationMAINE ASS…COLGATE UNIVERSITY — $105,000 · EducationUPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL — $96,500 · EducationHampshire Nursery School Inc — $95,000 · EducationUPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE — $85,000 · EducationMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV — $80,000 · Education+10 more — $467,500 · Education+10 moreNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation — $1,125,225 · PhilanthropyMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $300,000 · PhilanthropyPOSITIVE TRACKS INC — $175,000 · PhilanthropyMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC — $121,800 · Philanthropy+1 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY — $400,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YARD INC — $284,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Gallery Inc — $109,500 · Arts & CultureLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP — $105,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA NORTH — $60,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCLAREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $165,000 · Arts & CultureTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $267,900 · Community ImprovementGREEN MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER — $258,974 · Community ImprovementVITAL COMMUNITIES INC — $237,000 · Community ImprovementThe Space on Main — $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$13,578,124Human Services$3,991,267Health$2,304,609Education$2,235,641Philanthropy$1,747,025Arts & Culture$1,293,500Community Improvement$793,874

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation — $1,125,225 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW FUTURES INC — $1,050,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetWAYPOINT — $871,832 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $630,926 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $526,480 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetSPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER — $430,340 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY — $400,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetCLAREMONT LEARNING PARTNERSHIP — $388,891 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $380,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD — $367,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetWEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC — $365,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $305,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $300,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOrange County Parent Child Center Inc — $285,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetTHE YARD INC — $284,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $270,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $267,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC — $260,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER — $258,974 over 4y, 11% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE — $251,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVITAL COMMUNITIES INC — $237,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $222,750 over 3y, 26% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY — $220,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetPublic Health Council of the Upper Valley — $218,496 over 4y, 33% of budgetSociety for Research in Child Development Inc — $199,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPOSITIVE TRACKS INC — $175,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetLET'S GROW KIDS INC — $175,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc — $159,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMV YOUTH INC — $158,834 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $150,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetJAG PRODUCTIONS COMPANY — $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $137,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR NONPROFITS — $135,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC — $135,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital — $131,113 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $130,875 over 4y, 22% of budgetCRADLE AND CRAYON INC — $125,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $125,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC — $121,800 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST — $115,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Gallery Inc — $109,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY — $105,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP — $105,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC — $105,000 over 3y, 3.0% 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 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CLAREMONT LEARNING PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
  • Who funds WEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Public Health Council of the Upper Valley ↗
  • Who funds Society for Research in Child Development Inc ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE TRACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Grafton County Senior Citizens Council 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.

New Hampshire Charita…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Claremont Savings Ban…The Vermont Community…Hypertherm Hope Found…Granite United WayLane & Elizabeth C Dw…Mary Hitchcock Memori…Emily Landecker Found…Agnes M Lindsay TrustDartmouth-Hitchcock C…The Stannard & Doroth…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH124.4× affinity95 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Granite United Way · Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn · Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust

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 Couch Family Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 340%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Twin Pines Housing Trust — 100% of income from government
  • Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Safeline Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Hartford Community Coalition Inc — 61% of income from government
  • Springfield Area Parent Child Center — 53% of income from government
  • Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
  • The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Magic Mountain Childrens Center Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Caring Community Preschool — 31% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Toddlers Morning Out — 18% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Little Rivers Health Care Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Community Loan Fund — 14% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Treehouse Childrens School Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Windsor Public Library — 9% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Waldorf School — 4% of income from government
  • White River Partnership Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Vermont Energy Education Program Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
  • Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% of income from government
  • We R Hope — 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
  • Zack's Place Enrichment Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
34get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely 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: 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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How do I get to The Couch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Couch Family Foundation 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 370 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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