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The Singleton Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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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Its 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 its 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
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
NH
MI
NY
MA
IA
RI
VA
TN
MS
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • FS
    Forest Society of Maine
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +116%
  • NI
    NEADS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
  • 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%
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
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
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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc; 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 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. 14 of the 29 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetForest Society of Maine: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEADS INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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
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 Forest Society of Maine ↗
  • Who funds NEADS INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% 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, 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.

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 29 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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