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· Private foundation
THE FURTHERANCE FUND INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$370k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
5
Communities
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Philanthropy$11MEducation$1.9MEnvironment$290kYouth Development$120kArts & Culture$45kOther$1.0M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
educational
2020
educationeducational
2021
educationeducationalconservancy
2022
educationeducationalconservancy
2023
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2024
educationalconservancy
2025
educationalconservancy
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- POMFRET SCHOOL$150,000
- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$80,000
- OLMSTED MANOR RETREAT CENTER$50,000
- THE MACDOWELL COLONY$30,000
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY-ADIRONDACK CHAPTER$25,000
- ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC$25,000
- WOODLAWN CONSERVANCY INC$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 93% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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 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.
22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 19 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
19
4
Total granted
$3.3M
$12M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+32%
+21%
Still filing today
68%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth 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
- PSPOMFRET SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $835k · revenue +16%
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $340k · revenue +21%- TPTHE PARK SCHOOL5× · 2018–2022 · $230k · revenue +27%
Funded once
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $11M · revenue -28%- CSCAMP STEVENS EPISCOPAL DIOCESES OF LOS ANGELES & SAN DIEGOone grant, 2018 · $40k
- TLTHE LEARNING PROJECT-AUGUST SCHOLARSone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
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The Cambridge School
Operate a classical school from pre-K through 12th grade education.
Education
2
Newton School
to provide education, training and preparation in a private school environment for students in kindergarten through grade eight.
Education
3
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
4
The Potomac School
At the potomac school, we believe that intellectual development, love of learning, and strength of character are complementary, and equally essential, educational goals. with a firm commitment to our core values and a rigorous academic…
Education
5
The Pennington School
The pennington school is an independent co-educational school serving day and boarding students in grades 6-12. we are dedicated to developing excellence in all students.
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6
Providence Academy
College-prep school with a comprehensive core-knowledge curriculum.
Education
7
Trustees of Boston College
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Education
8
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
9
New York Academy of Sciences
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
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10
Boston Architectural College
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
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11
Berwick Academy
Berwick academy, founded in 1791, is dedicated to promoting virtue and useful knowledge among the rising generations.
Education
12
The City School
The mission of The City School is to train students' minds, disciple their hearts and bring light to the city, one child at a time.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Hotchkiss School. 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
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$11,466,697Education$1,925,000Other$1,015,000Environment$290,000Youth Development$120,000Arts & Culture$45,000
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 THE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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.
Fidelity FoundationMA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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 organisation THE FURTHERANCE FUND 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
05Through 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: CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~32 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043559945 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 CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION, 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 32 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% 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 Furtherance Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Furtherance Fund 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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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines