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The Cove Point Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$978k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Philanthropy$978kArts & Culture$897kEducation$461kEnvironment$244kHealth$134kAnimals$33kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $710k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$146,875
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (EIN 23-7825575)$978,488
METROPOLITIAN OPERA ASSOCIATION (EIN 13-1624087)$489,281
WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION (EIN 06-0653144)$268,894
DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC (EIN 23-7319903)$146,875
OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS (EIN 43-0821958)$146,875
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (EIN 83-0204184)$122,439
MASTERS SCHOOL (EIN 13-1740472)$97,874
THE SANTE FE OPERA (EIN 85-0131810)$97,874
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC (EIN 13-5643799)$97,874
THE JIMMY FUND AT THE DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC (EIN 04-2263040)$9,953
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 (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $3k → 7%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $3k → 7%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%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

NH
ND
NY
MA
WY
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 18% of The Cove Point Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Cove Point Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$316k · 29 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
11

Total granted

$316k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+41%

Still filing today

38%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22
HealthAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WS
    WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +36%
  • DANA HALL SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $16k · revenue +28%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • N(
    NOLS (NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL)
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -11%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +8%

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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
9
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 63 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%57%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/20
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,545

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

18 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. 18 of the 50 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (EIN 23-7825575) — $978,488 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (EIN 23-7825575)METROPOLITIAN OPERA ASSOCIATION (EIN 13-1624087) — $489,281 · OtherMETROPOLITIAN OPERA ASSOCIATION (EIN 13-1624087)WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION (EIN 06-0653144) — $268,894 · OtherWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION (EIN 06-0653144)OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS (EIN 43-0821958) — $146,875 · OtherOPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS (EIN 43-0821958)DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC (EIN 23-7319903) — $146,875 · OtherDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC (EIN 23-7319903)NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (EIN 83-0204184) — $122,439 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED INC (EIN 13-5643799) — $97,874 · OtherTHE SANTE FE OPERA (EIN 85-0131810) — $97,874 · OtherMASTERS SCHOOL (EIN 13-1740472) — $97,874 · Other+29 more — $276,953 · Other+29 morePANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $5,000 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $4,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $3,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthDANA HALL SCHOOL — $16,000 · EducationFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $9,500 · Recreation & SportsDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $5,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $3,500 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000 · AnimalsHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $8,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,723,427Health$16,500Education$16,000Environment$12,000Recreation & Sports$9,500Animals$9,500Youth Development$8,000

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 budgetWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL
  • Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC
  • Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND 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 Ayco Charitable FoundationNY14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization The Cove Point 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital5% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society2% 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 · 0–20%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Cove Point Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cove Point 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 50 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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