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· Private foundation
WILLIAM & ALFRED TAFT CHARITABLE TRUST
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$35k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
3
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of WILLIAM & ALFRED TAFT CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
—
2020
scholarship fbo
2021
—
2022
scholarship fbo
2023
scholarship fbo
2024
scholarships
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$977k
Total assets
Largest grants
- OXFORD COUNCIL ON AGING$10,000
- OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
- OXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL$6,000
- UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE$2,000
- NC STATE UNIVERSITY - RALEIGH$2,000
- UMASS AMHERST$2,000
- ENDICOTT COLLEGE$2,000
- OXFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of WILLIAM & ALFRED TAFT CHARITABLE TRUST’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
WILLIAM & ALFRED TAFT CHARITABLE TRUSTlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$178k · 8 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
18
Total granted
$178k
$47k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+14%
+23%
Still filing today
13%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
- OEOXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +14% · 30% of their budget
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF4× · 2018–2021 · $44k
- OCOXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $30k
Funded once
- OPOXFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- YIYOU INCone grant, 2018 · $8k
CLARK UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +40%
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
New England College
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Education
2
Norwich University
Norwich's mission is to give our youth an education that shall be american in its character.
Education
3
New England Institute of Technology
The mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is described in schedule o*the mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is to provide specialized undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs which…
Education
4
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
5
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University transforms the lives of students. Our success is defined by our students' success. By relentlessly challenging the status quo and providing the best support in higher education, Southern New Hampshire…
Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Welfare Benefit Plans Trust
To provide health and life insurance benefits to covered eligible retirees of massachusetts institute of technology and their dependents, as well as individuals receiving long-term disability benefits for at least three years.
Membership Benefit
7
Eastern University
Eastern University is a diverse, Christ-centered community preparing graduates to impact the world through faith, reason, and justice.
Education
8
Western New England University
See Schedule O Statement for Part III, Line 1 that also applies to Part I, Line 1
Education
9
Pacific University
A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world
Education
10
University of New England
The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.
Education
11
Meredith College
Founded in 1891, meredith is one of the largest women's colleges in the southeast. meredith offers comprehensive liberal arts and professional studies for undergraduate women. at the graduate level, meredith offers co-educational mba,…
Education
12
Monmouth College
To create and sustain an environment that is committed to liberal arts education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suffolk University and the most unlike its peers is The Oxford Ecumenical Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$215,369Education$18,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 OXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER INST OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation WILLIAM & ALFRED TAFT CHARITABLE TRUST 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
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 743203534 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on OXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to William & Alfred Taft Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to William & Alfred Taft Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines