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Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III at a glance

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Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III

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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$496k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$22MHealth$11MHuman Services$5.3MEducation$4.8MYouth Development$2.8MInternational$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $577k
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $4.9M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$147M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERA AMERICA$496,000
LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS$461,275
MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC$250,000
FOS FEMINISTA$250,000
GIRLS INC OF SARASOTA COUNTY$240,000
SUNRISE ASSOCIATION$235,000
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL$225,000
MYFACE$225,000
COVENANT HOUSE$200,000
SARASOTA ORCHESTRA$200,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
SARASOTA OPERA ASSOCIATION$200,000
CHILDREN FIRST INC$175,000
MYRIAD USA$150,000
RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC$150,000
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 (FY17–25, $7.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMPOWERED NETWORK: $100k → 9%BOYS TOWN NEW ENGLAND: $50k → 7%EMPOWERED NETWORK: $87k → 9%BOYS TOWN NEW ENGLAND: $50k → 7%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $150k → 13%PALS PROGRAMS: $100k → 6%PALS PROGRAMS: $100k → 22%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $150k → 13%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $150k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $135k → 14%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $125k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $125k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $70k → 7%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $50k → 13%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $60k → 7%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%BOOK FAIRIES: $75k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $235k → 6%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $185k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $185k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $160k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $150k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $150k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $150k → 6%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $130k → 10%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $150k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $140k → 6%YOUTH HAVEN: $175k → 10%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $100k → 6%YOUTH HAVEN: $125k → 10%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 6%NEXTGENFACE INC: $75k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $150k → 17%POPPA INC: $150k → 17%POPPA INC: $100k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $75k → 17%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

AK
ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
SC
DC
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 56%.

Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation IIIlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 137 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

137 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
83

Total granted

$56M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

85%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JS
    JUILLIARD SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +64%
  • Sarasota Opera Association Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +44%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • DP
    Dayton Performing Arts Alliance
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • VT
    VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +134%
  • GU
    GIVE2ASIA USA (MYRIAD USA)
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
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
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
2
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
3
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
5
The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture
6
Miami New Drama

Miami new drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, dedicated to the development and production of new theatrical work and to theater-making as a means of social engagement, cultural conversation, and…

Arts & Culture
7
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
8
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
9
The New Group Inc

The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…

Arts & Culture
10
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
11
The Dance Ring Inc

New york theatre ballet's (nytb) mission is to inspire a love of dance for audiences of all ages by offering affordable prices for a range of performances and public activities throughout the year.

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12
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc

Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Steve Nash Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

205 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. 205 of the 250 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
200/205
Grantees still filing
146/205
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERA AMERICA INC: $2,705,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA AMERICA INCSarasota Opera Association Inc: $1,840,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Opera Association IncASOLO THEATRE INC: $1,631,500 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INCNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $1,180,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $1,111,500 · Arts & CulturePROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL IN…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $719,000 · Arts & CultureHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $660,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $620,000 · Arts & Culture+52 more: $7,267,808 · Arts & Culture+52 moreSARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $2,290,000 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRAIndividual grant recipient: $1,875,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS: $1,581,660 · OtherLEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRASNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC: $1,470,500 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECON…HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $1,310,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYIndividual grant recipient: $1,230,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - DUBIN BREAST CENTER: $850,000 · OtherThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $1,050,000 · Other+63 more: $8,630,994 · Other+63 moreCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,805,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOU…SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,785,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY …THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $790,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FU…YOUTH HAVEN INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HAVEN …Jewish Community Centers of Chicago: $335,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $315,000 · Human ServicesPOPPA INC: $255,000 · Human Services+12 more: $1,390,500 · Human Services+12 moreJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $2,250,000 · EducationJUILLIARD S…SOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC: $850,000 · EducationSOMERSET HI…CHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC: $675,000 · EducationCHANCES FOR…Children First Inc: $595,000 · EducationChildren Fi…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $355,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SIL…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $240,000 · Education+11 more: $953,904 · Education+11 moreNaples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $825,000 · HealthNaples Ther…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $800,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $775,000 · HealthGLOBAL HEAL…SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $735,000 · HealthSILVER HILL…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $625,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $400,000 · HealthDAYTON CHIL…CAMP H-TOWN: $386,000 · HealthCAMP H-TOWNALD CONNECT INC: $250,000 · Health+15 more: $1,292,500 · Health+15 moreGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $1,297,805 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $800,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HORSEABILITY INC: $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentTASTE THE IMPACT INC: $200,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $1,140,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA: $1,080,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $318,000 · InternationalIMPACT IMMIGRATION: $100,000 · International
Arts & Culture$17,734,808Other$20,288,154Human Services$7,125,500Education$6,168,904Health$6,088,500Youth Development$2,652,805International$2,638,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $2,705,000 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $2,250,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $1,840,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,805,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,785,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $1,631,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC: $1,470,500 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $1,297,805 over 9y, 10% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $1,180,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $1,140,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $1,111,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $1,080,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $1,050,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC: $850,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetNaples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $825,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $800,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $800,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $790,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $775,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $735,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $719,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC: $675,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $660,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $650,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $625,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $620,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetANCHOR PROGRAM FUND INC: $600,248 over 8y, 32% of budgetChildren First Inc: $595,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $557,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EMMA ALYSON & KATE HANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $555,000 over 7y, 38% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $450,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $440,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDANCEUSA: $405,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC: $405,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP H-TOWN: $386,000 over 6y, 75% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $355,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $350,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $335,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOpportunity Music Project: $325,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $325,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCAMP HORSEABILITY INC: $305,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetLUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC: $305,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $300,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $275,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPOPPA INC: $255,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
  • Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
  • Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC ↗
  • Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANCHOR PROGRAM FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Children First Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EMMA ALYSON & KATE HANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DANCEUSA ↗

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 Shubert Foundatio…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Aaron Copland Fun…Barbara Bell Cumming …Jewish Communal FundThe Hyde and Watson F…Booth Ferris Foundati…American Express Foun…The New York Communit…Barbara Bell Cumming …The Ford Foundation
The Shubert Foundation IncNY37.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Co Herrick Feinstein LLP · The Ford 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 Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: 47% of income from government
  • York Street Project: 32% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Lead Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Holy Name Medical Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III 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 250 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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