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The Marion and Herbert Hess Charitable Trust C/O Gregory Pond

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.

$223k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Education$761kHuman Services$420kAnimals$212kFood & Nutrition$124kOther$253k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$15,635
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$96,045
THE SEEING EYE INC$37,972
THE SHELTER CONNECTION$26,804
HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER$15,635
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS$15,635
FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$15,635
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DURRELL$15,635
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 (FY17–24, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $19k → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $45k → 4%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $18k → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $43k → 4%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $18k → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $43k → 4%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $17k → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $41k → 4%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $16k → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $39k → 4%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $16k → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $39k → 4%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $16k → 6%THE SEEING EYE INC: $38k → 4%THE SEEING EYE INC: $12k → 4%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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
0

Total granted

$1.8M
$0

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $761k · revenue +34%
  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $301k · revenue +52%
  • TS
    THE SHELTER CONNECTION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +17% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

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

    04Your field
    04the grantee network

    5 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. 5 of the 7 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    5/5
    Grantees still filing
    5/5
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $761,051 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGETHE SEEING EYE INC — $300,882 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCHelen Keller Services — $119,087 · Human ServicesHelen Keller ServicesFEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES — $128,695 · OtherFEDERATION OF JE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DURRELL — $123,891 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS…THE SHELTER CONNECTION INC — $212,389 · AnimalsTHE SHELTER C…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $123,891 · Food & Nutrition
    Education$761,051Human Services$419,969Other$252,586Animals$212,389Food & Nutrition$123,891

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $761,051 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $300,882 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHELTER CONNECTION INC — $212,389 over 8y, 28% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $123,891 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHelen Keller Services — $119,087 over 7y, 0.1% 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
    • Who funds THE SHELTER CONNECTION INC
    • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
    • Who funds Helen Keller Services

    Government reliance of your grantees

    Every dot is one organization The Marion and Herbert Hess Charitable Trust C/O Gregory Pond 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
    202122232425
    no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
    • The Seeing Eye Inc0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Marion and Herbert Hess Charitable Trust C/O Gregory Pond?

    Find your warmest path to The Marion and Herbert Hess Charitable Trust C/O Gregory Pond 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 7 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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