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· Private foundation
THE DAVID P NOLAN FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$2k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants
1
Communities
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.
Human Services$51kEducation$6kYouth Development$2kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Benefit$1kOther$32k
03FY2023 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MASHOMACK COMMUNITY FUND INC$1,700
- THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD$500
02The need
04
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 (FY21–22, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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
Heritage Foundation
Education
2
The Hill School
Secondary boarding/day educational institution
Education
3
Heritage Institute
Health
4
The Collegiate School
See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
Education
5
The Hsc Foundation
See schedule o.to provide and coordinate innovative, high quality, community-based care for individuals with complex needs and their families.
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6
The Cambridge Foundation for Peace
International
7
Franklin & Marshall College
A residential college dedicated to excellence in undergraduate liberal arts education.
Education
8
Collegiate Foundations
Philanthropy
9
Suffield Academy
Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…
Education
10
Smithsonian Institution
"increase and diffusion of knowledge" is the mission set forth by james smithson.
Arts & Culture
11
Mars Hill University
The organization is a private liberal arts univesrity offering programs leading to five degrees: bachelor of arts, science, music, social work and fine arts.
Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$50,500Other$32,344Education$5,720Youth Development$2,000Philanthropy$1,700Public Benefit$1,000
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.
- Who funds SENTINEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds MASHOMACK COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE DAVID P NOLAN FOUNDATION INC 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
04Through 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: MASHOMACK COMMUNITY FUND INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 16.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 845099338 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 MASHOMACK COMMUNITY FUND INC, 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 14 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 2% 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 David P Nolan Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The David P Nolan Foundation Inc 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.
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