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The Triad Farm 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.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Arts & Culture$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kAnimals$16kReligion$11kCommunity Improvement$9kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$980k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY$10,000
DURHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
RINO FOUNDATION$5,000
CEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
HIGHLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
BECOMING FOUNDATION INC$5,000
AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER$3,000
RUTA TEATRAL INC$2,500
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS & SITES$2,500
BUSHKILL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HORSE ANGELS RESCUE: $10k → 6%AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER: $3k → 6%BUSHKILL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $3k → 11%RINO FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%BECOMING FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH INC: $1k → 17%RUTA TEATRAL INC: $3k → 15%CEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 16%ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 6%ROCKBRIDGE SPCA: $2k → 12%MCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $10k → 13%AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER: $1k → 6%RINO FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%BECOMING FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%CEDAR KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $4k → 16%MCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $10k → 13%PALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE: $2k → 6%HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS & SITES: $3k → 11%CEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 16%HIGHLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 13%NO KILL LEHIGH VALLEY: $2k → 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62k · 6 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$62k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureReligionEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • MV
    MCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • BF
    BECOMING FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • AW
    AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HA
    HORSE ANGELS RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +112%
  • UC
    US Chamber of Commerce Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • CK
    CEDAR KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2023 · $4k

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
Highland Volunteer Fire Department

To protect lives and property of the residents of the town of mccandless as a volunteer fire department.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Upper Lancaster Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide fire protection to community

3
North Bench Volunteer Fire Dept

Rural volunteer fire protection to members.

4
Hopedale Volunteer Fire Department

Providing volunteer firefighting & emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Sardis Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and emergency response

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Midway Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection for the borough of midway, pa and the surrounding area

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Rudolph Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire fighting services

8
Dolphin Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities

9
North Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer Fire Company

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

11
Quakertown Volunteer Fire Co No 1

Fire fighting services

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Church Hill Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Volunteer fire and ambulance service

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palisades Regional Fire Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Rino Foundation Inc. 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 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $20,000 · OtherMCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCDURHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherDURHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETYRINO FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherRINO FOUNDATION INCCEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $7,500 · OtherCEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCCEDAR KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $4,000 · OtherCEDAR KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEATLANTIC HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 · OtherBUSHKILL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherHORSE ANGELS RESCUE — $10,000 · AnimalsHORSE ANGELS RESC…AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $4,000 · AnimalsAARK WILDLIFE REH…NO KILL LEHIGH VALLEY — $2,000 · AnimalsNO KILL LEHIGH VA…BECOMING FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · ReligionBECOMING FO…HIGHLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHIGHLAND HI…RUTA TEATRAL INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureRUTA TEATRA…HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES — $2,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC BE…US Chamber of Commerce Foundation — $5,000 · EducationPALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE — $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$59,500Animals$16,000Religion$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Education$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000

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 budgetMCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHORSE ANGELS RESCUE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRINO FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBECOMING FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $7,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHIGHLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRUTA TEATRAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUSHKILL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNO KILL LEHIGH VALLEY — $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Triad Farm 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–30%
    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 18 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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