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The Evergreen Charitable Fund Inc co Albert Nierenberg

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.

$153k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$530kEducation$134kAnimals$59kHealth$56kInternational$50kCrime & Legal$43kScience & Tech$35kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$374k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Massachusetts Audubon Society$55,000
Haverford College$12,000
The Trustees of Reservations$12,000
Heifer Project International$10,000
Appalachian Mountain Club$10,000
The Cambridge School of Weston$8,000
Natural Resources Defense Council$6,000
Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue$5,000
BTABOLT Inc$5,000
Green Street Rescue$4,000
Environmental Defense Fund$3,000
Little Wanderers NYC$3,000
The Climate Reality Project$3,000
Earth Justice Legal Defense$3,000
Essex County Greenbelt Association$3,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Grahamtastic Connection: $3k → 9%Grahamtastic Connection: $1k → 9%Grahamtastic Connection: $1k → 9%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

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NY
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RI
CA
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DE
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DC

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$872k · 31 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
6

Total granted

$872k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+1%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHuman 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

  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +99%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +50%
  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • HL
    Harvard-Kent Leadership Scholarship
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • EC
    East Coast Greenway Alliance
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
9
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
12
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Friends of City Square Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionIndependent K-8 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr14%77%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,332

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 39 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $286,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $91,200 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONSAppalachian Mountain Club — $49,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain ClubNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $46,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $19,000 · Environment+3 more — $27,717 · Environment+3 moreBTABOLT Inc — $48,000 · OtherBTABOLT IncEarth Justice Legal Defense — $42,500 · OtherEarth Justice Legal …FRIENDS OF CITY SQUARE PARK — $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CITY SQUA…Individual grant recipient — $21,047 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Susan G Komen Fund — $9,000 · OtherHarvard-Kent Leadership Scholarship — $7,500 · Other+12 more — $21,220 · Other+12 moreCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $90,200 · EducationCORPORATION OF…THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC — $29,500 · EducationTHE CAMBRIDGE …+1 more — $3,500 · EducationHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $49,000 · InternationalHEIFER PR…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $34,500 · InternationalTHE UNION…+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalYANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC — $23,500 · AnimalsGREEN STREET RESCUE — $13,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,321 · AnimalsLITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC — $6,000 · AnimalsTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureGrahamtastic Connection — $4,500 · Human Services
Environment$519,417Other$179,267Education$123,200International$84,500Animals$58,821Arts & Culture$8,000Human Services$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $286,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $91,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $90,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $49,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $49,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $46,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $34,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY SQUARE PARK — $30,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC — $29,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC — $23,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN STREET RESCUE — $13,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION — $12,450 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,321 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGrahamtastic Connection — $4,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC — $4,267 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $2,620 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADD IMPACT NETWORK INC — $550 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 MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club
  • Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY SQUARE PARK
  • Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC
  • Who funds YANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds GREEN STREET RESCUE
  • Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC
  • Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds LITTLE WANDERERS NYC INC
  • Who funds Grahamtastic Connection
  • Who funds EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC
  • Who funds THE ADD IMPACT NETWORK 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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC11× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Evergreen Charitable Fund Inc co Albert Nierenberg 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association8% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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How do I get to The Evergreen Charitable Fund Inc co Albert Nierenberg?

Find your warmest path to The Evergreen Charitable Fund Inc co Albert Nierenberg 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 39 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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