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Van Sloun Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.4MEnvironment$560kArts & Culture$238kPublic Benefit$177kAnimals$175kHuman Services$158kPhilanthropy$154kHealth$152kRecreation & Sports$77kOther$2.5M
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $685k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $397k
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$175,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$56,800
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$55,000
SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$30,000
NAVITY PREPATORY SCHOOL$25,000
OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL$25,000
AMERICA'S VETDOGS$24,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$24,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$21,000
MASS AUDUBON$20,000
NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS$20,000
BLITHEWOLD INC$20,000
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, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ShelterBox USA: $7k → 14%DOGS INC: $10k → 10%Thrive Central Oregon: $2k → 10%Thrive Central Oregon: $500 → 10%Thrive Central Oregon: $500 → 10%Dennison Memorial Community Center: $10k → 11%Thrive Central Oregon: $500 → 10%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $8k → 14%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $5k → 11%Children's Friend: $2k → 14%NEADS: $5k → 11%NEADS: $4k → 11%THE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE: $20k → 8%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%ICA Food Shelf: $5k → 11%Helping Paws Inc: $1k → 11%ICA Food Shelf: $10k → 11%ICA Food Shelf: $3k → 11%ICA Food Shelf: $1k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $6k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $5k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $4k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $4k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $1k → 11%Crescent Cove: $1k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
NH
WA
MT
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IL
WI
NY
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OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
DE
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NC
DC
FL

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 99 repeat orgs$428k to everyone else

99 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
40

Total granted

$5.2M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+74%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k 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
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $629k · revenue +105%
  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +152%
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • CF
    COASTAL FOODSHEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +282%
  • DM
    Dennison Memorial Community Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +127%

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
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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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
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
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meeting Street and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue League of Fall River. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Christian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%73%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/89
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,476

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

85 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 166 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/85
Grantees still filing
65/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $795,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $628,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $360,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGEPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $139,700 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDBEREA COLLEGE — $135,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGEFRIENDS ACADEMY INC — $132,000 · EducationFRIENDS ACADEMY INCOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $100,000 · Education+14 more — $116,750 · EducationFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $320,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERFaxon Animal Care Adoption — $280,000 · OtherFaxon Animal Care AdoptionANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF FALL RIVER — $195,000 · OtherANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF FALL RIVERCommunity Foundation of Southeaster — $165,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of SoutheasterIndividual grant recipient — $130,000 · OtherStar Kids of New Bedford — $107,500 · OtherNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $102,000 · OtherUniv of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Ct — $97,000 · OtherSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $153,000 · Other+98 more — $1,319,750 · Other+98 moreMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $158,500 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA…Ducks Unlimited Inc — $135,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unl…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $125,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUS…WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC — $74,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT …LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $43,000 · EnvironmentLLOYD CEN…+5 more — $24,500 · EnvironmentBLITHEWOLD INC — $156,000 · Arts & CultureFall River Historical Society — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureMarion Art Center Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOGGESHALL FARM MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $177,000 · Public BenefitNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $63,000 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · AnimalsCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC — $24,000 · AnimalsEAGLEWATCH INC — $20,000 · AnimalsGREAT RIVER GREENING — $15,000 · AnimalsYANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC — $13,000 · Animals+4 more — $9,500 · AnimalsNEADS INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $26,000 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $13,700 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesDennison Memorial Community Center Inc — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $7,000 · Human Services
Education$2,407,250Other$2,869,250Environment$560,000Arts & Culture$238,000Public Benefit$177,000Animals$174,500Human Services$157,700

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $795,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $628,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $360,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $320,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF FALL RIVER — $195,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $177,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $158,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBLITHEWOLD INC — $156,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $153,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $139,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $135,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $135,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY INC — $132,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $125,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $100,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $81,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $77,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC — $74,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $63,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINSTRIDE THERAPY INC — $50,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetMeeting Street — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $43,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetNEADS INC — $34,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) — $32,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFall River Historical Society — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEVKIDS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY — $24,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC — $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $22,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEAGLEWATCH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMarion Art Center Inc — $20,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION — $16,900 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $13,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL FOODSHED — $12,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $10,000 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF FALL RIVER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLITHEWOLD INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds INSTRIDE THERAPY INC ↗
  • Who funds Meeting Street ↗
  • Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds NEADS INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) ↗
  • Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Grimshaw-Gudewicz Cha…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Rhode Island Comm…Bristol County Saving…United Way of Rhode I…The Carney Family Cha…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Xcel Energy FoundationAmica Companies Found…Philip Snyder Foundat…Eastern Bank Foundati…
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-TrusteeMA28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Philip Snyder Foundation · Eastern Bank 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 Van Sloun 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
  • The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc — 21% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Thrive Central Oregon — 12% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Fall River Historical Society — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University — 1% of income from government
  • Marion Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Van Sloun Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Van Sloun 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 166 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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