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The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$334k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.5MPhilanthropy$157kEducation$146kYouth Development$90kHealth$75kAnimals$70kCommunity Improvement$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $271k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APLOMB PROJECT$30,000
ANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC$25,000
PLAYERS RING COMPANY$25,000
ASHUELOT CONCERTS$22,500
AUSTIN17HOUSE$20,000
CONTINUUM ARTS COLLECTIVE$20,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE FIDDLE ENSEMBLE INC$15,000
ANNIE E WOODMAN INSTITUTE INC$15,000
NEWYORKREP INC$14,211
NEWYORKREP INC$14,211
EDGE ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY$10,500
LAMPREY ARTS AND CULTURE ALLIANCE$10,000
THE PARK THEATRE INC$10,000
ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
COOSA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEADS INC: $10k → 11%TALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC: $4k → 18%ANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC: $25k → 7%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%TALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC: $4k → 18%ANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC: $20k → 7%TALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC: $4k → 18%ANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC: $15k → 7%TALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC: $4k → 18%TALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC: $3k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
TN
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 46 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
12

Total granted

$2.8M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-9%

Still filing today

89%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TP
    THE PARK THEATRE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $441k · revenue +110%
  • TC
    THE COLONIAL THEATRE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $310k · revenue +13%
  • PP
    PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • MU
    MONADNOCK UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -12%
  • CO
    CATHEDRAL OF THE PINES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +46%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Historical Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +224%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Hampshire Music Festival

Classical music concerts.

Arts & Culture
2
Actors Company of Natick

The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.

Arts & Culture
3
Friends of the Music Hall

The Music Hall (TMH) is a community-supported, nonprofit live entertainment venue with acclaimed film, music, theater, literary, and dance performances in two theaters in downtown Portsmouth, NH. Its 900-seat Historic Theater, built in…

Arts & Culture
4
North Country Chamber Playersinc

To culturally enrich the communities of northern new hampshire through high quality perfomances of the chamber music repertoire and through creative interactive educational and community programs.

Arts & Culture
5
New Bedford Festival Theatre Inc

The New Bedford Festival Theater is dedicated to producing the best of musical theater, using quality production techniques and engaging the best local talent and theatrical artists. The Theater is a cultural resource with a goal of…

Arts & Culture
6
The Theater At Monmouth

The mission of theater at monmouth is to present innovative approaches to shakespeare and other classic plays through professional productions that enrich the lives of people throughout the state of maine.

Arts & Culture
7
Shaker Bridge Theatre Inc

To foster and support the performing arts in the upper valley and lakes region of new hampshire

Arts & Culture
8
Northampton Center for the Arts Inc

To provide affordable space for artists, performers and educators. to offer arts progamming in northampton massachusetts.

Arts & Culture
9
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
10
New England Symphonic Ensemble Inc

Performs classical music in various settings often for other charitable causes. Allows young artists to gain performance experience. Provides produces concert series soloists clinicians adjudicators and functions related to advancing the…

Arts & Culture
11
Lyric Theatre Company

The mission of lyric theatre company is to produce musicals and other performing arts of professional quality for northern new england. we offer both members and the public opportunities for learning and growth with an emphasis on…

Arts & Culture
12
New England Museum of Telephony
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colonial Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Austin 17 House. 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

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
36/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PARK THEATRE INC: $441,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARK THEATRE INCTHE COLONIAL THEATRE: $310,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLONIAL THEATREPETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INC: $145,000 · Arts & CulturePETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INCASHUELOT CONCERTS: $117,500 · Arts & CultureASHUELOT CONCERTSNEW HAMPSHIRE THEATRE PROJECT: $87,360 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOVING COMPANY DANCE CENTER: $82,500 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $78,500 · Arts & CultureEDGE ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY: $77,450 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $661,343 · Arts & Culture+25 moreIndividual grant recipient: $161,185 · OtherIndividual grant recip…COOSA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $79,060 · OtherCOOSA COUNTY BOARD OF …MONADNOCK ARTS-IN-EDUCATION: $69,000 · OtherMONADNOCK ARTS-IN-EDUC…UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $53,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA …MONADNOCK UNITED WAY INC: $50,000 · OtherMONADNOCK UNITED WAY I…CATHEDRAL OF THE PINES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherMOUNT CAESAR UNION LIBRARY: $30,000 · OtherDOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPA: $22,500 · OtherTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $35,000 · OtherTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLA…+11 more: $92,500 · Other+11 moreNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAustin 17 House: $80,000 · PhilanthropySoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $29,280 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesTALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesMonadnock Community Hospital: $75,000 · HealthMONADNOCK HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $70,000 · AnimalsNEWYORKREP INC: $28,422 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNew Hampshire Outright: $5,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$2,085,653Other$622,745Philanthropy$216,280Human Services$88,000Health$75,000Animals$70,000Youth Development$38,422

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PARK THEATRE INC: $441,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetTHE COLONIAL THEATRE: $310,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetPETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INC: $145,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetASHUELOT CONCERTS: $117,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE THEATRE PROJECT: $87,360 over 5y, 19% of budgetALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MOVING COMPANY DANCE CENTER: $82,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAustin 17 House: $80,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $78,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEDGE ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY: $77,450 over 6y, 29% of budgetMonadnock Community Hospital: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONADNOCK HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMONADNOCK ARTS-IN-EDUCATION: $69,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCONTINUUM ARTS COLLECTIVE: $60,188 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetPLAYERS' RING: $55,355 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority: $53,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $53,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $53,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMONADNOCK UNITED WAY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetARTS ALIVE INC: $45,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE FIDDLE ENSEMBLE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetJOURNEYS IN EDUCATION INC: $39,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE APLOMB PROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetCATHEDRAL OF THE PINES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMOUNT CAESAR UNION LIBRARY: $30,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $29,280 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEWYORKREP INC: $28,422 over 1y, 12% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY: $22,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE IBMA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTALLACOOSA AID TO PEOPLE INC: $17,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetHalcyon Music Festival: $16,300 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNEADS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBETHLEHEM REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLamprey Arts & Culture Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF FROST FREE LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHEATRE UP: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEpsilon Spires Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGRAND MONADNOCK YOUTH CHOIRS: $7,500 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetMONADNOCK MUSIC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Hampshire Charita…Madelaine G Vonweber …Hoffman Family Founda…The Kingsbury FundEversource Energy Fou…Arthur L Getz Charita…New Hampshire Humanit…Merrill Family Charit…The Memton Fund IncCogswell Benevolent T…Bangor Savings Bank F…Saul O Sidore Memoria…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH75.7× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Hoffman Family Foundation · The Kingsbury Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · New Hampshire Humanities Council · Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Memton Fund Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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