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The Triad Farm Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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

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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

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palisades Regional Fire Rescue; 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 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 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $20,000 · OtherMCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCRINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherRINO FOUNDATION INCDURHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherDURHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETYCEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · OtherCEDAR KEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCCEDAR KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $4,000 · OtherCEDAR KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEBUSHKILL TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $2,500 · OtherATLANTIC HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $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…HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC BE…RUTA TEATRAL INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureRUTA TEATRA…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 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 budgetMCDOWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBECOMING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHORSE ANGELS RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% 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 budgetHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUTA TEATRAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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
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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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 18 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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