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The Penates Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$738k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$894kPublic Benefit$380kHealth$230kYouth Development$206kInternational$186kCommunity Improvement$180kReligion$126kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $141k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $502k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,000
BOCH CENTER$50,000
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY$35,000
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$25,000
LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE$25,000
THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY$25,000
AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE$25,000
THE CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION$25,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$25,000
LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE$25,000
KEYSTONE COLLEGE$25,000
RIVIER UNIVERSITY$25,000
WOODSON CENTER$25,000
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA$25,000
WOLFEBORO AREA RECREATION ASSOC$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF FAITH: $12k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF FAITH: $5k → 9%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE: $2k → 8%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%SEEDS OF FAITH: $5k → 9%SEEDS OF FAITH: $5k → 9%MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC: $5k → 7%SEEDS OF FAITH: $2k → 9%MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC: $5k → 7%SEEDS OF FAITH: $500 → 9%MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC: $5k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%WOLFEBORO AREA CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 9%WOLFEBORO AREA CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 9%MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC: $5k → 7%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF HAMPTON: $1k → 5%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF HAMPTON: $1k → 5%ONE SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 5%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%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
VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 86 repeat orgs$504k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

86 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
40

Total granted

$3.8M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • LF
    LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +30%
  • BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +94%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • LH
    LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • UF
    UNH FOUNDATIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +42%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
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
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
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
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Northeastern University
Education
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsLocal History MuseumsJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…School District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%4/111
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,819,454

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

106 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 154 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/106
Grantees still filing
66/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN OPERA — $243,960 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAFDN FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH — $125,000 · OtherFDN FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTHCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESKEYSTONE COLLEGE — $72,000 · OtherWATERAID AMERICA INC — $80,000 · OtherNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $60,000 · Other+74 more — $896,735 · Other+74 moreBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $200,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPAN…THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY…Friends of The Music Hall — $133,690 · Arts & CultureFriends of The Music HallCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Arts Workshops f…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $71,600 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA…OPERA AMERICA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $164,400 · Arts & Culture+19 moreNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $131,500 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERV…Marywood University — $114,000 · EducationMarywood UniversityCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $70,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HAL…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FO…HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $60,000 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR HIG…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $59,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COL…GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $51,000 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACA…NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC — $25,000 · EducationRivier University — $25,000 · EducationCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · Education+14 more — $91,550 · Education+14 moreLIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT — $380,000 · Community ImprovementLIVE FREE OR DI…WOODSON CENTER — $100,000 · Community ImprovementWOODSON CENTERGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND…TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOVENANT HOUSE — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF FAITH INC — $29,500 · Human ServicesMOORE CENTER SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human Services+6 more — $14,250 · Human ServicesTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100,000 · EnvironmentLakes Region Conservation Trust — $20,000 · EnvironmentNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Environment
Other$1,577,695Arts & Culture$969,690Education$742,050Community Improvement$585,000Youth Development$190,000Human Services$173,750Environment$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT — $380,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $200,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall — $133,690 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $131,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMarywood University — $114,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $100,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc — $75,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE — $72,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $71,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $59,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $40,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF FAITH INC — $29,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $27,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOLFEBORO AREA RECREATION ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRivier University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $21,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOORE CENTER SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Institute of Art — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNew Generation Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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 LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of The Music Hall ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds Marywood University ↗
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF FAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Fidelity FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Madelaine G Vonweber …A Caring Community IncCogswell Benevolent T…The Schifrin Foundati…Ibm International Fou…Boston Foundation IncThe Oxford League IncThe Schleyer Foundati…Curvey Family Foundat…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH59.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · A Caring Community Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Oxford League Inc · The Schleyer Foundation · Curvey Family Foundation

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 Penates 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Retreat — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Penates Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Penates 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 154 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.

Source object · view filing

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