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The Elaine Dewey Sammons 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.

$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$134kHealth$115kAnimals$72kPhilanthropy$28kFood & Nutrition$20kInternational$5kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$23,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT$30,000
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$23,500
MANNA FOOD BANK$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNLIMBITED FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%MANNA FOOD BANK: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $24k → 12%NO BARRIERS USA: $5k → 11%BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $14k → 12%BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 12%PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 12%BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%DELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%DELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 11%MOUNTAIN AMATUER ATHLETIC CLUB: $2k → 12%PALM BEACH COUNTY LITERACY COALITN: $4k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT: $30k → 11%LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT: $25k → 11%LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT: $15k → 11%LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT: $15k → 11%LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT: $10k → 11%LITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT: $10k → 11%GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 11%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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$336k · 5 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +186% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$336k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+186%
+38%

Still filing today

60%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Food & NutritionAnimalsInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • BH
    Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $111k · revenue +186%
  • AH
    ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +213%
  • WC
    WALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • PB
    Palm Beach County Food Bank Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +48%
  • NB
    NO BARRIERS USA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -81%
  • GS
    GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +315%

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
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
2
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
3
University of South Florida Alumni Association Inc

The mission of the usf alumni association is to foster a mutually beneficial, lifelong relationship between the university and its alumni; to inspire loyalty and pride among current and future alumni; and to advocate for excellence in…

Education
4
North Carolina Bar Association

The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…

5
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
6
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc

To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.

Food & Nutrition
7
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
8
Outer Banks Community Foundation Inc

The outer banks community foundation helps meet local needs across dare county and the entire outer banks. we manage charitable funds for individuals and agencies, and we target grants and scholarships toward our communitys most pressing…

Philanthropy
9
Wrmc Hospital Operating Corporation

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

Health
10
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
11
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
12
Wilkes Medical Center Foundation

To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Cove Members Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc — $111,000 · OtherBethesda Hospital Foundation IncLITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT — $105,000 · OtherLITERACY COALITION PALM BEACH COUNT+2 more — $9,000 · OtherASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $72,000 · AnimalsASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCI…WALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC — $27,500 · PhilanthropyDELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · EducationMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $10,000 · Food & NutritionNO BARRIERS USA — $5,000 · InternationalTHE UNLIMBITED FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB INC — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$225,000Animals$72,000Philanthropy$27,500Education$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000International$5,000Health$4,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc — $111,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $72,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC — $27,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetDELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNLIMBITED FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB INC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

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 Cuyler P and Brenda G Medore FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cuyler P and Brenda G Medore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization The Elaine Dewey Sammons 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
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–5%
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

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How do I get to The Elaine Dewey Sammons Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Elaine Dewey Sammons 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 12 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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