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The Securitas Foundation

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.

$162k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$544kRecreation & Sports$305kEducation$293kReligion$10kCrime & Legal$10kHealth$6kPhilanthropy$4kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO$60,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA$55,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO$27,500
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$10,000
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA$2,500
ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,300
NANTUCKET SHELLFISH ASSOCIATION INC$1,235
EAGLE SWIM CLUB$1,000
WEST VALLEY COLLEGE$1,000
MADAKET CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$550
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE (THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION)$500
MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC$500
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CHURCH$200
THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$125
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$104
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $5k → 22%SANTA CLARA HIGH SCHOOL: $100k → 8%THE OXBOW SCHOOL: $3k → 9%UNITED STATES WATER POLO FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $34k → 10%SAN DIEGO WATER POLO CLUB -SHORES: $25k → 11%MARIST COLLEGE: $4k → 9%SOMERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3k → 9%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $25k → 13%HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING: $51k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO: $60k → 28%SWIM ACROSS AMERICA: $3k → 10%CHRISTIAN'S TOUCH INC: $5k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $33k → 22%UNITED STATES WATER POLO FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $28k → 10%SAN DIEGO WATER POLO CLUB -SHORES: $15k → 11%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $20k → 13%ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH: $6k → 17%THE FRIENDS SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC: $7k → 14%USA WATER POLO: $20k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $22k → 10%SAN DIEGO WATER POLO CLUB -SHORES: $10k → 11%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $3k → 22%UNITED STATES WATER POLO FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $21k → 10%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3k → 22%UNITED STATES WATER POLO FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $20k → 10%BAY AREA MASTERS WATER POLO: $26k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $18k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $18k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $16k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $55k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $50k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 17%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $25k → 10%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO: $5k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO: $5k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO: $5k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO: $5k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO: $5k → 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

ME
VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$830k · 27 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
44

Total granted

$830k
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+59%

Still filing today

52%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • HR
    HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +101%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    3× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +3%
  • TT
    THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SC
    SANTA CLARA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • LA
    LIFE AFFIRMING FEEL GOOD
    one grant, 2019 · $70k
  • BA
    BAY AREA MASTERS WATER POLO
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
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
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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2
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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3
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
Usa Artistic Swimming

Appointed as the governing body by the us olympic committee, our mission is to provide leadership and resources for the promotion growth of synchronized swimming and to achieve competitive excellence at all levels and to develop broad…

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12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Madaket Land Trust. 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

43 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. 43 of the 85 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $176,650 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHORAL PROJECTS OF SAN FRANCISCOSANTA CLARA HIGH SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherSANTA CLARA HIGH SCHOOLFORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLO: $84,635 · OtherFORDHAM UNIVERSITY WATER POLOLIFE AFFIRMING FEEL GOOD: $70,000 · OtherLIFE AFFIRMING FEEL GOODSAN DIEGO WATER POLO CLUB -SHORES: $51,221 · OtherSAN DIEGO WATER POLO CLUB -SHORESBAY AREA MASTERS WATER POLO: $26,493 · Other+47 more: $107,330 · Other+47 moreSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $255,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSO…+7 more: $3,511 · Arts & CultureST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $55,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIV…THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUN…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,834 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…+8 more: $12,065 · Education+8 moreUnited States Water Polo Foundation: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States…HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $55,311 · Recreation & SportsHUDSON RIVER …USA WATER POLO INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA WATER POL…+2 more: $1,100 · Recreation & SportsCHRISTIAN'S TOUCH INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSwim Across America Inc: $2,500 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $173 · PhilanthropyAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $1,100 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300 · Health
Other$616,329Arts & Culture$258,511Education$152,899Recreation & Sports$136,411Crime & Legal$10,000Philanthropy$5,673Health$1,400

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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $255,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Water Polo Foundation: $60,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetHUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $55,311 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,834 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSA WATER POLO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS SCHOOL OF ATLANTA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN'S TOUCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP: $1,660 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $1,367 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELICON FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNANTUCKET SHELLFISH ASSOCIATION INC: $1,235 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPotomac Theatre Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetXS Tennis and Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterMusic SF: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADAKET LAND TRUST: $500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDynamo Parents' Club Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $395 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOUSE INC: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $252 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab: $244 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Bridge Fund: $173 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $143 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL 039 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWERPLAY NYC INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds United States Water Polo Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds USA WATER POLO INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL OF ATLANTA ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN'S TOUCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds OXBOW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds THE HELICON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET SHELLFISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Pinkerton FoundationNY13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Securitas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Securitas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report 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, 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 Securitas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Securitas 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 85 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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