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Tomac Foundation

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.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$202kEducation$96kHuman Services$61kHealth$49kInternational$45kEnvironment$40kRecreation & Sports$37kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$19,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$19,750
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$19,750
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$19,750
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$19,750
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$19,750
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$19,700
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 (FY18–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $500 → 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $3k → 9%PETERBOROUGH HUMAN SERVICES FUND: $1k → 7%FRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $3k → 7%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $500 → 10%SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14k → 9%FRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $2k → 7%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 16%SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%FRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $2k → 7%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $535 → 16%SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%FRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $2k → 7%CONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $4k → 7%PORTLAND REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $4k → 12%SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%CONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $3k → 7%PORTLAND REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $4k → 12%CONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $3k → 7%CONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $2k → 7%MADISON COUNTY OFFICE FOR THE AGING: $1k → 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
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$585k · 50 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
61

Total granted

$585k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+38%

Still filing today

76%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • HI
    HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +10%
  • SA
    SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +342%
  • CR
    COLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT
    7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +360%
  • TH
    THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +65%
  • MU
    MENDOCINO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
5
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
6
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
7
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
8
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
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
12
Willing Hands Enterprises Inc

Willing hands delivers fresh food to more than 80 social service organizations throughout the upper valley of new hampshire and vermont that serve as food access points to our community. fresh food is recovered from local farms, grocery…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collateral Repair Project; the most unlike its peers is Project Rise. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 113 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
57/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND: $193,550 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDVermont Families in Transition Inc: $39,000 · OtherVermont Families in Transition IncVERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC: $20,200 · OtherHEALTHY PENINSULA: $20,003 · Other+67 more: $153,605 · Other+67 moreHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $60,505 · EnvironmentHURRICANE ISLAN…Maine Island Trail Association: $9,335 · EnvironmentMaine Island Tr…Oregon Environmental Council: $7,500 · EnvironmentOregon Environm…Ducks Unlimited Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited…Chewonki Foundation Inc: $3,500 · Environment+3 more: $6,700 · Environment+3 moreSNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,167 · Human ServicesSNOWBASIN …CONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $12,755 · Human ServicesCONCORD CO…FRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $9,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…PACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $7,502 · Human ServicesPACIFIC RE…Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $2,500 · Human Services+5 more: $6,535 · Human Services+5 moreCOLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT: $21,250 · InternationalVILLAGE HELP FOR SOUTH SUDAN INC: $8,800 · InternationalBrackett Foundation: $5,220 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $4,500 · InternationalUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $8,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $7,500 · EducationIsland Institute: $4,000 · EducationTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationPROJECT RISE: $3,000 · EducationTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $1,500 · EducationWoodlawn School: $1,253 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE: $14,200 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN CENTER OF RESEARCH INCORPORATED: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTOWN HALL THEATER INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureKIMBALL JENKINS INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL REGION FOOD PROGRAM: $9,500 · Food & NutritionUPCOUNTRY STRONG INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionROOT NS INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionDAVIDSON FARMERS MARKET: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$426,358Environment$92,540Human Services$64,959International$39,770Education$30,253Arts & Culture$20,200Food & Nutrition$18,500

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 budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $60,505 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVermont Families in Transition Inc: $39,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,167 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetCOLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT: $21,250 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetVERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC: $20,200 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetHEALTHY PENINSULA: $20,003 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE: $14,200 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $12,755 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL REGION FOOD PROGRAM: $9,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $9,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $9,335 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVILLAGE HELP FOR SOUTH SUDAN INC: $8,800 over 5y, 12% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $7,502 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS FOR 911: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetShanta Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTrueNorth Health Foundation: $5,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBrackett Foundation: $5,220 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINTERKIDS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ADVENTURE INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPCOUNTRY STRONG INC: $3,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBristol Rescue Squad Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CENTER OF RESEARCH INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOT NS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAVIDSON FARMERS MARKET: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $1,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $1,535 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA VILLAGE FOR ONE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,500 over 3y, 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.

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.

The Virginia Wellingt…Agnes M Lindsay TrustBoston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Community Foundation …Quimby Family Foundat…Institution for Savin…The Vermont Community…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Kneisel Foundatio…Van Otterloo Family F…Rogers Family Foundat…
The Virginia Wellington Cabot FoundationMA69.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Quimby Family Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Kneisel Foundation Inc · Van Otterloo Family Foundation · Rogers Family 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 Tomac Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tomac Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • A Village for One: 33% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Town Hall Theater Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Supportive Living Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Project Adventure Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
17report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tomac Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tomac Foundation 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 113 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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