How much did THE ROCKFALL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of THE ROCKFALL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

town

2020

old saybrookriver

2021

—

2022

middletown

2023

chesterland

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$6,835
CONNECTICUT RIVER MUSEUM$4,000
EVERYONE OUTSIDE INC$3,000
VALLEY SHORE YMCA$3,000
TWO COYOTES WILDERNESS SCHOOL$3,000
BUSHY HILL NATURE CENTER$3,000
PATHFINDERS INC$2,654
OLD LYME OPEN SPACE COMMISSION$1,750
BROWNSTONE QUORUM$1,500
CLEAN WATER FUND$1,200
FREDERICK BREWSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOO$600

02The need

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.

None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$119k · 15 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$119k

$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+46%

Still filing today

27%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

VS
VALLEY SHORE YMCA
7× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +23%
EO
EVERYONE OUTSIDE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +9%
TC
TWO COYOTES WILDERNESS SCHOOL
3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +60%

Funded once

TN
THE NORTH END ACTION TEAM INC
one grant, 2019 · $5k
MA
MYSTIC AQUARIUM
one grant, 2019 · $5k
CR
CONNECTICUT RIVER CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

The Scenic Hudson Land Trust Inc

See Schedule O for The Scenic Hudson Land Trust's mission statement.

Environment

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage

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Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment

The Field Center

Located in southern Vermont, the Field Center is an educational center for arts practices that serves as a resource for working artists at all stages of their career to focus on their work, develop their teaching and performance practices…

Arts & Culture

Island Institute

We boldly navigate climate and economic change with island and coastal communities to expand opportunities and deliver solutions.

Education

Earth Island Institute Inc

Earth Island Institute (the Organization) was founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower (1912-2000) to confront the unprecedented threats to life on Earth. The Organization supports environmental initiatives that are…

Environment

Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and working landscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation, stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for community…

Environment

The Nature Institute

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Stratford Ecological Center Inc

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Natural Resources Trust of Easton

It is the mission of the natural resources trust of easton (nrt) to educate the public of significant natural and cultural resources and to acquire and preserve land of special character for the benefit of the public.

Environment

Wild Compass Environmental Education

PEBC or Wild Compass is an enviromental learning center providing educational programs thorugh southwest Minnesota. The primary focus of the PEBCs (Wild Compass) programming is through field trips with area schools.

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Connecticut Explored Inc

To educate the general public about the history and cultural heritage of the State of Connecticut and the role the State and its citizens have played as part of the American experience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sea Research Foundation Inc. 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

10/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$155,809Human Services$23,000Environment$21,620Education$10,250Arts & Culture$4,900Recreation & Sports$2,654Animals$2,000Community Improvement$2,000

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

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.

Community Foundation OfCT22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Of · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE ROCKFALL 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

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8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARTFARM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 204931656 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ARTFARM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Rockfall Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rockfall Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ROCKFALL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rockfall Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE ROCKFALL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Rockfall Foundation?

More from the funding graph