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The George I Alden Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The George I Alden Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$30MHuman Services$7.6MArts & Culture$5.1MPhilanthropy$3.1MHealth$2.6MEnvironment$2.2MFood & Nutrition$720kYouth Development$685kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k33 grants · $505k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+12 grants · $5.9M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$214M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC$1,000,000
SAINT JOHN'S HIGH SCHOOL$750,000
ECOTARIUM$750,000
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$600,000
NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC GARDEN AT TOWER HILL$500,000
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY$500,000
ANNA MARIA COLLEGE$475,000
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES$300,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$300,000
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE$250,000
WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION$250,000
FRANKLIN COUNTY YMCA$250,000
NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC$200,000
BABSON COLLEGE$200,000
MASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL INITIATIVES$200,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $125k → 7%OLD COLONY YMCA: $130k → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $125k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD: $150k → 17%DANVERS COMMUNITY YMCA: $150k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $25k → 11%ATTLEBORO NORTON YMCA: $150k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $150k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $150k → 16%HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA: $125k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $150k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $150k → 16%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $15k → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $15k → 11%MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $15k → 11%WORCESTER COMMUNITY AUCTION COUNCIL: $15k → 11%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $15k → 11%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $15k → 11%CENTRO INC: $15k → 11%WORCESTER REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $15k → 11%WORCESTER REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $15k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $25k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $15k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $15k → 11%GUILD OF ST AGNES: $125k → 11%GUILD OF ST AGNES: $50k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $50k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $15k → 11%NEADS: $15k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $15k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY: $25k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY: $15k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%LIVING IN FREEDOM TOGETHER-LIFT: $15k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%MUSTARD SEED CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY: $15k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%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
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
NC
GA
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 92 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
199

Total granted

$28M
$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+15%

Still filing today

74%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +33%
  • TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +30%
  • WN
    WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • WP
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • FH
    Family Health Center of Worcester
    one grant, 2020 · $650k
  • WA
    Worcester Art Museum
    one grant, 2020 · $600k
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.

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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
5
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education
10
Meredith College

Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.

Education
11
The College of Wooster

The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…

Education
12
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut College; the most unlike its peers is Worcester Comprehensive Education & Care. 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

188 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 188 of the 323 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
188/188
Grantees still filing
142/188
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $4,050,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEYMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $2,675,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTSUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,845,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI): $1,100,000 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC: $1,000,000 · Other+73 more: $13,605,000 · Other+73 moreTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1,450,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITYWORCESTER ACADEMY: $800,000 · EducationWORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $745,000 · Education+95 more: $17,228,000 · Education+95 moreWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $1,300,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER …WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $1,065,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER …MUSIC WORCESTER INC: $780,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORC…WORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL: $600,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER …OLD STURBRIDGE INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureOLD STURBR…WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $290,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $225,000 · Human ServicesGUILD OF SAINT AGNES OF WORCESTER: $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DANVERS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesATTLEBORO YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $125,000 · Human ServicesHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $125,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesNEW GARDEN PARK INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementVETERANS INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL INITIATIVES INC: $200,000 · Science & TechREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentEDWARD STREET CHILD SERVICES INC: $80,000 · Environment
Other$24,275,000Education$20,223,000Arts & Culture$4,635,000Human Services$2,035,000Community Improvement$230,000Science & Tech$200,000Environment$195,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $4,050,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,845,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $1,450,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $1,300,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $1,065,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $800,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $780,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetWORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $745,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL: $600,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $550,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC: $525,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $375,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $375,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $310,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNICHOLS COLLEGE: $300,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $300,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBowdoin College: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLYCOMING COLLEGE: $275,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $270,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $255,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBucknell University: $249,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $235,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $220,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION: $217,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BIOMEDICAL INITIATIVES INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $180,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $180,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Greater Worcester Com…The Fletcher Foundati…Stoddard Charitable T…The Fred Harris Danie…Webster Five Foundati…United Way of Central…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…Schwartz Charitable F…Hoche-Scofield Founda…Wyman GordonCoghlin Services FundBerkshire Bank Founda…
Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA118.4× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Wyman Gordon · Coghlin Services Fund · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc

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 George I Alden Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George I Alden Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Centro Las Americas Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Pathways for Change Inc: 86% of income from government
  • Mcauley Nazareth Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester: 60% of income from government
  • Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Pernet Family Health Service Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Wachusett Greenways Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Open Sky Community Services Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • New Garden Park Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Edward Street Child Services Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Orchestras Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Community Action Council Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Music Worcester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc: 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
  • Norwich University: 4% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
  • Caldwell University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Artsworcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Worcester County Mechanics Association Dba Mechanics Hall: 2% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Western New England University: 1% of income from government
  • Wicn Public Radio Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Joy of Music Program Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Architectural College: 1% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
  • Curry College: 0% of income from government
  • Nichols College: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Creative Hub Worcester: 0% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Dean College: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The George I Alden Trust?

Find your warmest path to The George I Alden Trust 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 323 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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