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Community Heart & Soul Inc

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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Arts & Culture$100kCommunity Improvement$50kPublic Benefit$50kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$30kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$10kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF PITTSFIELD$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PEPPERELL PLUS 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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Growing Places: $10k → 11%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of Community Heart & Soul Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in VT; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Community Heart & Soul Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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
Northern Maine Development Commission

To serve the northern Maine region with effective regional community planning and economic development.

Community Improvement
2
Dawson County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the dawson county chamber of commerce is cultivating a successful economic environment and a desirable quality of life for our businesses and community.

3
Yukon Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic growth in the community through leadership, support, and service to our members.

4
Aberdeen Downtown Association

Creating vitality in the heart of the city.

Community Improvement
5
Paulding County Economic Development Inc

To assist in the retention and creation of jobs, improve local services, broaden the tax base and encourage capital investment in paulding county, ohio.

Public Benefit
6
Door County Economic Development Corporation

Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…

Community Improvement
7
Aberdeen Area Chamber of Commerce

To champion the economic health and vitality of our community and the greater Aberdeen area while serving as the premier advocate for our members.

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Tri-County Economic Development Corporation

Build a world-class economy in northern kentucky through the expansion of existing businesses and the creation and attraction of high quality, primary industry employers.

9
Franklin County Economic Development Corporation

The edc is committed to serving new and existing businesses and industries, and to assist with the creation and retention of quality jobs through direct and collaborative funding of projects for the economic well being of franklin county.

Community Improvement
10
Erie County Economic Development Charitable Fund

To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.

11
Dekalb County Economic Development Partnership Inc

Were on a mission to improve the quality of life for the citizens of dekalb county through the responsible growth of business and industry. our vision is to facilitate investment into making dekalb county a premier economic driver in…

Community Improvement
12
Portage Development Board

To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Strategies for a Stronger Sanford and the most unlike its peers is Akron Opera House. 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

13 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. 13 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STARVED ROCK COUNTRY COMMUNITY FUND — $10,000 · OtherSTARVED ROCK COUNTRY COMMUNITY FUNDCity of Muscatine Iowa — $10,000 · OtherCity of Muscatine IowaVillage of Cambridge Illinois — $10,000 · OtherVillage of Cambridge IllinoisDUNCAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY — $10,000 · OtherDUNCAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRYARMADA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherARMADA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETYMACEDONIA HAMILTON DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 · OtherMACEDONIA HAMILTON DEVELOPMENT CORPIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPEPPERELL PLUS INCORPORATED — $10,000 · OtherPEPPERELL PLUS INCORPORATEDCity of Postville Iowa — $10,000 · OtherCity of Postville IowaTOWN OF VAN BUREN — $10,000 · OtherTOWN OF VAN BURENCOLONIAL BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherCOLONIAL BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF ALBANY COUNTY — $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ALBANY COUNTYCITY OF DAWSON — $10,000 · OtherCITY OF DAWSONTOWN OF LINCOLNVILLE ME — $10,000 · OtherTOWN OF LINCOLNVILLE METOWN OF GREAT FALLS SC — $10,000 · OtherTOWN OF GREAT FALLS SCTOWN OF PITTSFIELD — $10,000 · OtherTOWN OF PITTSFIELDBROOKS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY — $7,143 · OtherPennsylvania Humanities Council — $40,000 · Arts & CulturePennsylvania Humanities…AKRON OPERA HOUSE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAKRON OPERA HOUSERED OAK HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureRED OAK HERITAGE FOUNDA…Good Work Institute Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH FLORIDA EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSTRATEGIES FOR A STRONGER SANFORD — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $5,664 · Education
Other$167,143Arts & Culture$60,000Human Services$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Youth Development$10,000Education$5,664

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPennsylvania Humanities Council — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH FLORIDA EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetGood Work Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDUNCAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ALBANY COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR A STRONGER SANFORD — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRED OAK HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBRIDGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $5,664 over 2y, 19% 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 organization Community Heart & Soul 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 49%
  • Growing Places Garden Project Inc49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 27 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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