How much did THE COVE CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE COVE CHARITABLE TRUST’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

scholarships

2019

scholarships

2020

saint louisscholarships

2021

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2022

animal

2023

freebuzzards bay

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

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $41k
$10k–50k9 grants · $128k
$50k–250k1 grant · $81k

$11,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

BRIDGE CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL$81,000
YMCA$21,000
ST GABRIELS CHURCH$20,000
MT ANTHONY UNION HS$16,500
SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC$15,000
MT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY$12,000
NICA NADADORES INC$12,000
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST$11,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC$10,000
FOOD FOR FREE$8,000
HUNGER FREE AMERICA$8,000
ST JOHNS BREAD AND LIFE$8,000
NICAPHOTO$7,000
SWIM STRONG FOUNDATION$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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$800k · 19 repeat orgs$621k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$800k

$489k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+15%

Still filing today

53%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationAnimalsEnvironmentHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

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MILLSTONE WILDLIFE CENTER
2× · 2022–2023 · $74k · revenue +55% · 47% of their budget
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +83%
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SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +262%

Funded once

HH
HAVERHILL HOMELESS VETERANS
one grant, 2019 · $59k
NH
NEW HAMPSHIRE TURTLE RESCUE INC
one grant, 2023 · $43k
HV
HOMELESS VETERANS
one grant, 2020 · $34k

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.

New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association

Alliance of wild harvesters of the waters off of new england dedicated, to educating the public about how best to manage our seafood resources through sound science & best practices of conversation used by fishermen

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Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

Land conservation in nantucket, massachusetts

Environment

Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

1) Deliver practical tools and support for today's fishermen to adapt and succeed in a changing fishery.2) Partner with schools and community based groups to provide 9-12, university-level, and professional education to prepare community…

Science & Tech

Boston Food Forest Coalition

At the intersection of racial equity and climate resilience, the boston food forest coalition, a nonprofit community land trust, is a community of neighbors transforming vacant lots into public edible parks placed into permanent community…

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Squam Lakes Natural Science Center

To advance understanding of ecology by exploring new hampshire's natural world.

Environment

Florida Audubon Society Inc

Natural resource protection through conservation of wildlife, preservation of habitat, including clean air and water, and prudent growth management for sustained quality of life.

Environment

Berks Nature

Berks nature is the leading agent for conservation of the environment in berks county.

Environment

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Faunalytics

Our mission is to empower animal advocates with access to research, analysis, strategies, and messages that maximize their effectiveness to reduce animal suffering.

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National Wildlife Refuge

To conserve america's wildlife heritage for future generations through srategic programs that protect and enhance the national wildlife refuge system and the landscapes beyond its boundaries. by combining policy, landscape-scale…

Animals

Second Nature Inc

Second nature's mission is to accelerate climate action in, and through, higher education.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rails to Trails Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Suny Maritime Foundation 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,541

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

24 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)

24/24

Grantees still filing

15/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$932,333Animals$126,666Environment$125,000Education$106,135Employment$60,000Youth Development$50,000Housing & Shelter$21,000

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation THE COVE CHARITABLE TRUST 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

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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: MILLSTONE WILDLIFE CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +55% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 815074741 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 MILLSTONE WILDLIFE CENTER, 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 16 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Cove Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Cove Charitable Trust 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 COVE CHARITABLE TRUST

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

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Cove Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph

THE COVE CHARITABLE TRUST

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

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Cove Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph