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The Singleton Family 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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Environment$13kMembership Benefit$12kHuman Services$9kReligion$7kHealth$3kAnimals$2kEducation$2kRecreation & Sports$750Other$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Omena Presbyterian Church$1,615
KIRK IN THE HILLS$1,500
NRCM$1,000
FOREST SOCIETY OF MAINE$1,000
THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$1,000
RESTORE THE NORTH WOODS$1,000
NEADS$1,000
INTERNATIONAL SEAPLANE FLY-IN$550
Hockomock Area YMCA$500
TEAM RUBY HUNTERS HOPE FOUNDATION$500
MOOSEHEAD RIDERS$250
FAYETTE COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE$250
Cure Alzemier's Fund$250
The Piney Woods School$250
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY$250
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEADS: $1k → 11%Hockomock Area YMCA: $500 → 11%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%NEADS: $1k → 11%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%NEADS: $1k → 11%NEADS: $1k → 11%NEADS: $500 → 11%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
NH
MI
NY
MA
IA
RI
VA
TN
MS

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$49k · 17 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$49k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+131%

Still filing today

53%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsScience & TechCivil RightsOther

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

  • NI
    NEADS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
  • FS
    Forest Society of Maine
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +116%
  • PW
    Piney Woods School
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TR
    TEAM RUBY HUNGERS HOPE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • AS
    All Saints Catholic Church
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +16%

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
Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
4
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
5
Appalachian Mountain Club

Since 1876, the Appalachian Mountain Club has promoted the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the mountains, forests, waters, and trails of the Appalachian region. We are the nation's oldest outdoor recreation and conservation…

Environment
6
Bates Morse Mountain Conservation Area Corporation

Education and scientific research

7
Natural State Ltd

Through large-scale restoration and rewilding, NATURAL STATE secures biodiversity, sequesters and stores carbon, and helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.NATURAL STATE is helping restore and rewild a minimum of 1,000,000 acres.

Environment
8
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
9
North East State Foresters Association

The north east state foresters association (nefa) is the state foresters of maine, new hampshire, vermont and new york cooperating with the usda forest service state and private forestry. nefa was formed in the 1980s and has focused its…

10
Friends of Acadia

Friends of Acadia preserves, protects, and promotes stewardship of the outstanding natural beauty, ecological vitality, and distinctive cultural resources of Acadia National Park and surrounding communities for the inspiration and…

Environment
11
Maine Appalachian Trail Club

Maintenance of the Appalachian Trail in Maine.

12
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conflict Awareness Project. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Gamma Sigma Alumni Association — $12,000 · OtherGamma Sigma Alumni AssociationKIRK IN THE HILLS — $7,500 · OtherKIRK IN THE HILLSRESTORE THE NORTH WOODS — $3,500 · OtherRESTORE THE NORTH WOODSIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOMENA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $1,615 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · Other+10 more — $6,450 · Other+10 moreForest Society of Maine — $4,500 · EnvironmentForest Society of M…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $3,500 · EnvironmentNatural Resources C…Restore The North Woods Inc — $1,000 · EnvironmentRestore The North W…SAVE THE BAY INC — $500 · Environment+1 more — $250 · EnvironmentNEADS INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesNEADS INCMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGART…HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · Human ServicesHOCKOMOCK YOU…Piney Woods School — $2,000 · EducationFAYETTE COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,450 · AnimalsMOOSEHEAD RIDERS INC — $750 · Recreation & SportsMOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY — $675 · Science & TechConflict Awareness Project — $300 · Civil Rights
Other$34,565Environment$9,750Human Services$6,500Education$2,000Animals$1,450Recreation & Sports$750Science & Tech$675Civil Rights$300

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEADS INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetForest Society of Maine — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPiney Woods School — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRestore The North Woods Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOOSEHEAD RIDERS INC — $750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SEAPLANE FLYIN INC — $750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY — $675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConflict Awareness Project — $300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 NEADS INC
  • Who funds Forest Society of Maine
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc
  • Who funds Piney Woods School
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE
  • Who funds Restore The North Woods Inc
  • Who funds MOOSEHEAD RIDERS INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SEAPLANE FLYIN INC
  • Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY
  • Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC
  • Who funds Conflict Awareness Project
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization The Singleton Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 29 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.

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