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The Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey Inc) at a glance

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The Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey Inc)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
225
Grants FY2025still arriving
35
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$9.7MPublic Benefit$5.4MCivil Rights$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEnvironment$679kEducation$506kInternational$197kHuman Services$165kOther$0
02FY2025 · 225 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k191 grants · $502k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $422k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$2,500
Median grant
35
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS$325,000
TYPE MEDIA CENTER$307,500
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES$250,000
THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION$250,000
DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC$200,000
NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM$157,000
ACLU FOUNDATION INC$150,000
TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC$105,425
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$100,000
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$100,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND$87,753
ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM DBA JEWISH CURRENTS$80,300
FSISI DBA DISSENT MAGAZINE$75,000
BARN RAISING MEDIA INC$75,000
BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA$60,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 12%NORTHERN NEW JERSEY SANCTUARY COALITION: $25k → 16%ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 12%NORTHERN NEW JERSEY SANCTUARY COALITION: $20k → 16%SIMA STUDIOS: $2k → 14%JACOBIN FOUNDATION: $30k → 20%JACOBIN FOUNDATION: $30k → 20%JACOBIN FOUNDATION: $30k → 20%JACOBIN FOUNDATION: $30k → 20%JACOBIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%RIPPLE EFFECT ARTISTS INC: $3k → 17%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CA
MO
WV
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 42 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 197 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
19

Total granted

$22M
$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-6%

Still filing today

81%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPublic 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

  • IF
    Institute for Public Affairs
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +21% · 38% of their budget
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +290% · 82% of their budget
  • BA
    BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +34% · 61% of their budget

Funded once

  • TO
    TOTAL OTHER GRANTS
    one grant, 2023 · $389k
  • BA
    BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USABRICK BY BRICK PARTNERS
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INDEPENDENT SOCIAL IDEAS DBA DISSENT MAGAZINE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Lively Productions

Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies

Arts & Culture
3
The Conversationalist
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4
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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5
Jewish Plays Project

The Jewish Plays Project identifies develops and presents new works of theater through one-of a kind explorations of contemporary Jewish identity between audiences artists and patrons.

Arts & Culture
6
The Civilians Inc

To create original projects involving theater, cabaret and music, taking them from investigations into real life.

Arts & Culture
7
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
8
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
9
What Will the Neighbors Say

What Will the Neighbors Say? is an investigative theatre company that provokes questions through untold stories. Led by a collaborative cohort of international artists, the Neighbors present overlooked social, cultural and historical…

Arts & Culture
10
Anonymous Ensemble Inc

Anonymous Ensemble creates new theater, performance media, and live film. Incorporating original texts, music, rituals, and technologies, we foster intimate experiences between local and digitally global communities. By giving voice and…

Arts & Culture
11
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture
12
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Queen City Chamber Opera Dba Queen City Opera. 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

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 259 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/112
Grantees still filing
51/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOTAL GRANTS: $4,182,844 · OtherTOTAL GRANTSInstitute for Public Affairs: $2,655,951 · OtherInstitute for Public AffairsABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC: $1,190,000 · OtherABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INCTYPE MEDIA CENTERTHE NATION INSTITUTE: $1,090,000 · OtherTYPE MEDIA CENTERTHE NATION INSTITUTEABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC ALBA: $735,000 · OtherABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC ALBATHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $720,000 · Other+119 more: $2,950,415 · Other+119 moreASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC: $1,519,900 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION …TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $1,457,900 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INCMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,170,278 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW …DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $850,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS …BARN RAISING MEDIA INC: $225,000 · Arts & Culture+44 more: $312,114 · Arts & Culture+44 moreBABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE: $1,310,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $424,121 · Education+5 more: $31,950 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $885,832 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $100,000 · Civil RightsDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc: $87,753 · Civil Rights+7 more: $81,500 · Civil RightsTEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC: $649,325 · Recreation & SportsCAMP KINDERLAND INC: $178,250 · Recreation & SportsNATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC: $557,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $450,000 · Public BenefitAccountability Journalism Institute Inc: $21,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$13,524,210Arts & Culture$5,535,192Education$1,766,071Civil Rights$1,255,085Recreation & Sports$827,575Philanthropy$562,000Public Benefit$486,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInstitute for Public Affairs: $2,655,951 over 8y, 38% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC: $1,519,900 over 7y, 82% of budgetTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $1,457,900 over 5y, 15% of budgetBABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE: $1,310,000 over 7y, 61% of budgetABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC: $1,190,000 over 5y, 77% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,170,278 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $885,832 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $850,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $720,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC: $649,325 over 8y, 80% of budgetNATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC: $557,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $424,121 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARN RAISING MEDIA INC: $225,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCAMP KINDERLAND INC: $178,250 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $140,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS INC: $131,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $120,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $89,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc: $87,753 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT: $70,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetYouth Service America: $67,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $47,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN NEW JERSEY SANCTUARY COALITION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC: $42,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $35,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOU CAN VOTE: $32,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetREMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOpen Source Gallery Inc: $23,114 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAccountability Journalism Institute Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $19,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetURI L'TZEDEK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Diversity Projects Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCommunity Care of West Virginia Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Media Project: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLabor Arts Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,950 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $5,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds Institute for Public Affairs ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC ↗
  • Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARN RAISING MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KINDERLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
  • Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Youth Service America ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Park Foundation IncThe New York Communit…Institute for Nonprof…The Miami Foundation …Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…The Ford FoundationJewish Community Fede…Tides FoundationPadosi FoundationThe Winky Foundation …
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC19.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Park Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · Padosi Foundation · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co

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 Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey Inc) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey Inc). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey Inc) 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 259 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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