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The Solstice Trust at a glance

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The Solstice Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$29kHealth$8kArts & Culture$6kHuman Services$6kInternational$2kRecreation & Sports$2kCommunity Improvement$2kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$138k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS$1,500
HANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY$1,500
VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO$1,500
FRIENDS OF SAKONNET LIGHTHOUSE$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 12 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$32k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+16%

Still filing today

58%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • EW
    ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +33%
  • UV
    UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +38%
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +5%
  • OC
    OCEAN CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -2%
  • E
    EDF
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
2
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
5
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
8
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
9
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
10
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
11
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

—
12
Vermont Land Trust Inc

Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Student Conservation Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 30 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)
20/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE HAVEN: $6,500 · OtherTHE HAVENIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVermont Public Radio: $4,000 · OtherVermont Public RadioIndividual grant recipient: $2,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLAN INTERNATIONAL: $2,250 · OtherPLAN INTERNATIONALCHARLES RICHARD CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherCHARLES RICHARD CAMPBELL FOUNDATIONTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE: $2,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF…+7 more: $4,000 · Other+7 moreENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $3,250 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING …NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFE…UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $1,750 · EnvironmentUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUS…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCYTiverton Land Trust: $500 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $500 · EnvironmentHANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsVERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsSUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthThe Family Place: $2,000 · Human ServicesNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationTLT- TOMORROWS LEADERS TODAY: $250 · Education
Other$35,500Environment$11,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Health$2,500Human Services$2,000Arts & Culture$1,000Education$750

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY CORPORATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTiverton Land Trust: $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAKONNET LIGHTHOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTLT- TOMORROWS LEADERS TODAY: $250 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Solstice Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Solstice Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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

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How do I get to The Solstice Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Solstice Trust 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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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