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· Private foundation
THE HUMANIST TRUST
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$26k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
3
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$112kHealth$37kHousing & Shelter$13kYouth Development$7kOther$3k
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$709k
Total assets
Largest grants
- LICR FUND INC$5,500
- MILTON ACADEMY$5,500
- NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL$5,500
- ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL$4,000
- NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,500
- NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER$1,000
- POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$1,000
- PREP FOR PREP$1,000
- STERNE SCHOOL$500
- CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL$500
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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$169k · 11 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
2
Total granted
$169k
$2k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+12%
+7%
Still filing today
100%
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
EducationHousing & ShelterHealthYouth 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
- NSNIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +76%
- SBST BERNARD'S SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +12%
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- TETHE EAST HARLEM SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $1k
- HAHARLEM ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $625 · revenue +7%
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 Philadelphia School
See schedule o the philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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2
Gilman School Incorporated
Gilman school is a diverse community dedicated to educating boys in mind, body and spirit through particular emphasis upon academic excellence, athletic participation and aesthetic appreciation. gilman seeks to produce men of character and…
Education
3
Flintridge Preparatory School
Independent, coeducational day school for grades 7-12, committed to creating an environment that values ethical and emotional development as equally important to intellectual development.
Education
4
Westside Neighborhood School
An independent day school providing education for students from pre-k to 8 grades.
Education
5
The Seven Hills School
Educational instruction and activities to students ranging from pre-k through 8th grade.
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6
West Nottingham Academy
Inspire and educate students to become socially aware leaders and innovators who positively impact their communities around the world
Education
7
Bullis School
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
Education
8
Ghs Academy
Inspiring a love of learning and empowering each child to achieve their personal best.
Education
9
Hillbrook School
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience (continued on sch. o)that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in…
Education
10
Corlears School
To operate a non-profit private school for students aged 2-10.
Education
11
German International School New York
To provide education for children in pre-k and grades k through 12.
Arts & Culture
12
The Laurence School
Laurence's purpose is to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nightingale-Bamford School and the most unlike its peers is Milton Academy. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$112,125Health$36,500Housing & Shelter$12,538Youth Development$7,000Other$2,500
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 NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LICR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HALEY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STERNE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
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.
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover 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 HUMANIST TRUST 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: HALEY HOUSE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 042437845 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 HALEY HOUSE, 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 15 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% 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 Humanist Trust?
Find your warmest path to The Humanist Trust 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 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