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The Powers Family 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.

$682k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$618k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$590kReligion$120kHealth$90kPublic Benefit$25kHuman Services$14kRecreation & Sports$10kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $250k+1 grant · $618k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$618,231
On Course Foundation USA$25,000
Church of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary$10,000
St Christopher Church$10,000
Greenwich County Day School$10,000
Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center$2,500
Southampton Fresh Air Home$2,500
Partnership to End Addiction$2,500
James B Lee Scholarship Fund$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $300k → 7%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILDREN: $10k → 6%CHURCH OF SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY: $25k → 7%GOLDMAN SACHS GIVES: $689k → 14%THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 17%SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL: $5k → 28%SAINT CHRISTOPHER CHURCH: $10k → 10%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER: $1k → 11%On Course Foundation USA: $25k → 13%FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION: $10k → 5%WENDY NOVAK DIABETES INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%CHURCH OF SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY: $15k → 7%GOLDMAN SACHS GIVES: $678k → 14%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $250k → 17%St Christopher Church: $10k → 10%FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%CHURCH OF SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY: $10k → 7%Goldman Sachs Gives: $618k → 14%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $3k → 17%SAINT CHRISTOPHER CHURCH: $10k → 10%FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%CHURCH OF SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY: $10k → 7%GOLDMAN SACHS GIVES: $530k → 14%HARLEM ACADEMY: $3k → 17%SAINT CHRISTOPHER CHURCH: $5k → 10%Greenwich County Day School: $10k → 9%Church of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary: $10k → 7%GOLDMAN SACHS GIVES: $480k → 14%Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center: $3k → 17%HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $3k → 10%GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 7%CENTER ON ADDICTION: $3k → 17%LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%Southampton Fresh Air Home: $3k → 7%Partnership to End Addiction: $3k → 17%HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $1k → 10%THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $2k → 7%GODS LOVE WE DELIVER: $5k → 17%James B Lee Scholarship Fund: $1k → 7%PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $3k → 17%JAMES LEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 7%THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 9 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$3.2M
$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+50%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +85%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME
    2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +33%
  • HS
    HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +50%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +62%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +57%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
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
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
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
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction; the most unlike its peers is United States Golf Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,995,044 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+12 more: $147,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOST…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $252,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF …+2 more: $12,500 · EducationTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $3,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthON COURSE FOUNDATION USA: $25,000 · Public BenefitPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $6,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTUESDAY'S CHILDREN: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,142,544Education$565,000Health$72,000Public Benefit$25,000Philanthropy$20,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $252,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUESDAY'S CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $6,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Powers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Powers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Powers Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Powers Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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