Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

The Naduse Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
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 FY20192025.

Health$118kHuman Services$77kEnvironment$75kHousing & Shelter$49kCivil Rights$48kInternational$42kAnimals$32kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER$7,500
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS$5,000
NAMI$5,000
COMMUNITY CATALYST$5,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SRVCS$5,000
YOUNG CENTER FOR CHILDREN$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
FAMILY AID$5,000
MASSPIRG$5,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE$5,000
ON THE RISE$5,000
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION$5,000
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES$5,000
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 (FY19–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $3k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $5k → 16%211 LA: $1k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $3k → 10%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMAGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $3k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $5k → 16%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMAGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $2k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $2k → 10%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMAGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $2k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $2k → 16%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $2k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $2k → 16%ACTION INC: $1k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $1k → 10%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $5k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $5k → 16%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON: $3k → 16%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

ME
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
GA

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$449k · 34 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
18

Total granted

$449k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentInternationalHealthCrime & LegalFood & 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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%
  • OT
    ON THE RISE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +67%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • MP
    MAUI PONO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +10%

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
3
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
6
The Commons Inc

To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
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
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
10
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
11
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Change Inc. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Local Food System Organizat…Women & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,523

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

42 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. 42 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $42,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $35,500 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRE…COMMUNITY CHANGE INC — $26,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHANGE INCIndividual grant recipient — $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIFAW GLOBAL ANIMAL RESCUE — $15,500 · OtherIFAW GLOBAL ANIMAL RESCUEFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $14,000 · OtherYOUNG CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · Other+24 more — $111,013 · Other+24 moreON THE RISE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesON THE RISE INCUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $16,500 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SE…ACTION INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesACTION INCTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FO…HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW ADVOCATE…WELLSPRING HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE IN…+2 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $25,500 · InternationalWOMEN FOR …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…THE CARTER CENTER INC — $6,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARES…DIRECT RELIEF — $5,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…Chewonki Foundation Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentChewonki …GREEN BEVERLY 107Q INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentGREEN BEV…SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAK…COMMUNITY WORK DAY PROGRAM — $3,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY…SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $3,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAK…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST…TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $14,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC — $10,000 · HealthNAMI National — $10,000 · HealthBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $24,500 · Science & TechEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $6,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$273,513Human Services$90,500International$51,500Environment$46,000Health$39,500Science & Tech$24,500Crime & Legal$13,500

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 budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetON THE RISE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHANGE INC — $26,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $14,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACTION INC — $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BEVERLY 107Q INC — $7,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORK DAY PROGRAM — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INFORMATION AND REFERRAL FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY — $1,000 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA24.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Analog Devices Foundation · Edwin S Webster Foundation · The Orchard Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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 Naduse Foundation 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 · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Boston Children's Foundation Inc96% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc52% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc39% of income from government
  • Nourishing the North Shore Inc20% of income from government
  • Project Hope Boston Inc18% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc15% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc11% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc9% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc4% of income from government
  • Action Inc3% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations2% of income from government
  • Green Beverly 107Q Inc1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Naduse Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Naduse Foundation 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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph