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The Snowden 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.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$132kEducation$104kHealth$72kAnimals$36kHuman Services$21kFood & Nutrition$19kArts & Culture$18kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN LIGHT MERCY HOSPITAL$10,000
TRINITY CHURCH$10,000
CHURCH FARM SCHOOL$10,000
ST MARTINS IN THE FIELD CHURCH$5,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$3,000
SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$2,500
SAVE$2,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK MAINE$2,000
ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH$2,000
PREBLE STREET$2,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$1,500
GARDNER CARNEY LEADERSHIP INST$1,000
SAILMAINE$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%PREBLE STREET: $2k → 7%ARM IN ARM: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $3k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $3k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $3k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $3k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $3k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $3k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $2k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $1k → 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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$440k · 24 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$440k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+62%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    Church Farm School
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +2%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +122%
  • MH
    Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • GO
    GOALS OF CARE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • HOMEFRONT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +62%

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
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
4
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
5
Princeton Senior Resource Center Dba Center for Modern Aging Princeton

Psrc is the go-to resource where aging adults and their families find support, guidance, educational and social programs to help navigate life transitions and continue to be active, healty and engaged in the community.

Human Services
6
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
7
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
8
Princeton Nursery School

Princeton Nursey School's mision is to provide quality childcare and preschool services to children 2.5 to 5 years old from working families with low to moderate incomes. For more than 90 years PNS has provided children with a positive…

Education
9
Memorial Elder Health Services

The mission of memorial elder health services is to serve the physical, emotional, recreational, social and therapeutic needs of senior citizens with degenerative illnesses associated with aging for the community members of our service…

Human Services
10
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
11
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
12
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital. 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

19 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. 19 of the 32 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRINITY CHURCH — $92,000 · OtherTRINITY CHURCHST MARTINS IN THE FIELD CHURCH — $40,000 · OtherST MARTINS IN THE FIELD CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRINCETON HEALTHCAREPENN MEDICINE — $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN MAINE MEDICAL CENTER — $9,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS MERCER COU — $9,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK MAINE — $9,000 · OtherMCCARTER THEATRE — $9,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $9,500 · Other+10 more — $25,500 · Other+10 moreChurch Farm School — $80,000 · EducationChurch Farm SchoolTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $24,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACA…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationCENTER AT 353 INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER AT…ONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesONE SIMPL…ARM IN ARM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesARM IN AR…PREBLE STREET — $2,000 · Human ServicesSAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS — $19,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $17,000 · AnimalsMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $20,000 · HealthPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM HOLDING INC — $15,000 · HealthPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $10,000 · Environment
Other$234,500Education$105,000Human Services$37,500Animals$36,000Health$35,000Philanthropy$10,000Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChurch Farm School — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS — $19,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $17,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM HOLDING INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER AT 353 INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARM IN ARM INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $9,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Community Squash — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL MAINE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $1,000 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 Church Farm School
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
  • Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital
  • Who funds SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS
  • Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM HOLDING INC
  • Who funds CENTER AT 353 INC
  • Who funds ONE SIMPLE WISH INC
  • Who funds Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust
  • Who funds ARM IN ARM INC
  • Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
  • Who funds Portland Museum of Art
  • Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc
  • Who funds HISTORIC MORVEN INC
  • Who funds Portland Community Squash
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET
  • Who funds SAIL MAINE
  • Who funds HOMEFRONT 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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Willard Tc Johnson Foundation Inc · The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Snowden 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 · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Princeton Healthcare System Holding Inc12% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc9% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc4% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–90%
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 32 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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