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Walter Durley Boyle Charitable Trust

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$16k
Largest
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 2025.

Education$850kCommunity Improvement$470kHealth$459kArts & Culture$330kReligion$135kFood & Nutrition$114kHuman Services$107kCrime & Legal$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
$7,272
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUTNAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$16,390
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF HENNEPIN$16,357
THE SALVATION ARMY - HEARTLAND DIVISION$15,679
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$9,488
PUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES$8,731
ILLINOIS BAR ASSOCIATION$8,198
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$7,272
Individual grant recipient$4,508
ST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL$4,172
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY$3,949
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND$2,370
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$1,636
MARSHALL PUTNAM 4-H AND EXTENSION FOUNDATION$1,636
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $741 → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$2.4M
$100k

Still filing today

47%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IV
    ILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $641k · revenue +39%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $324k · revenue +33%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SB
    ST BEDE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Diabetes Technology Society

To facilitate research into the treatment, monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of diabetes.

Health
2
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
3
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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4
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
American Podiatric Medical Association Inc

The association defends member podiatric physicians and surgeons' ability to practice to the full extent of their education and training to best serve public health.

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7
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono

Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.

Health
8
St Elizabeth's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Fr ancis

The mission of st. elizabeth's hospital is to reveal and embody christ's healing love for all people through our high quality franciscan healthcare ministry.

Health
9
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Foundation for the Blind Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $470,323 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPUTNAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $329,893 · OtherPUTNAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYPUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INC: $113,569 · OtherPUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INCUNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF HENNEPIN: $108,726 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF HENNEPINTHE SALVATION ARMY - HEARTLAND DIVISION: $107,095 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - HEARTLAND DIVISIONST BEDE ACADEMY: $100,220 · OtherST BEDE ACADEMYDURLEY BOYLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO PUTNAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $92,251 · OtherDURLEY BOYLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO PUTNAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $55,882 · OtherILLINOIS BAR ASSOCIATION: $53,982 · Other+3 more: $53,223 · OtherILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $641,208 · EducationILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY CO…American Heart Association Inc: $324,037 · HealthAmerican Heart As…St Margaret's Health-Spring Valley: $53,435 · HealthSt Margaret's Hea…+1 more: $10,112 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,605 · Human Services
Other$1,485,164Education$641,208Health$387,584Human Services$15,605

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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $324,037 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INC: $113,569 over 9y, 13% of budgetSt Margaret's Health-Spring Valley: $53,435 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $16,390 over 1y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,605 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,112 over 9y, 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.

  • Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds St Margaret's Health-Spring Valley ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Walter Durley Boyle Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter Durley Boyle Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Walter Durley Boyle Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Walter Durley Boyle Charitable Trust 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 17 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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