Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 04-6093505. Reported 142 grants totalling $692,000 to 58 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $6,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $34,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Reservations | Boston, MA | $96,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Conway School of Landscape Design | Northampton, MA | $56,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Fractured Atlas | New York, NY | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Newport Hospital Foundation | Newport, RI | $46,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Eaglebrook School | Deerfield, MA | $38,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Public's Radio | Providence, RI | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fresh Energy | Saint Paul, MN | $31,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Newport Hospital | Newport, RI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Manitou Art Center | Manitou Spgs, CO | $28,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Weer Africa | Harrisburg, PA | $27,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ccn Historic Preservation Building Fdn | Newport, RI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $18,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Art and Newport | Middletown, RI | $17,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Provincetown Art Association | Provincetown, MA | $17,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Institue of Noetic Sciences | Petaluma, CA | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Open Gate Sangha Inc | Santa Cruz, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ripr the Public's Radio | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society | Lincoln, MA | $9,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Cape Coast and Islands NPR Station | Woods Hole, MA | $9,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Solstice Project | Santa Fe, NM | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Truro Center for the Arts | Truro, MA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tibet Mongalom Inc | Miami, FL | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Provincetown Public Art Foundation | Provincetown, MA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wellfleet Historical Society Inc | Wellfleet, MA | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| NPR - Krcc | Colorado Springs, CO | $6,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Putney School | Putney, VT | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Georgia | Truro, MA | $5,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Newport Art Museum | Newport, RI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Newport Historic Spring | Newport, RI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Norman Bird Sanctuary | Middletown, RI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust | Middletown, RI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Potter League for Animals | Middletown, RI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| White Bison | Colorado Springs, CO | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kaweah Waters Birthright Foundation | Colorado Springs, CO | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Neponset Choral Society Inc | East Walpole, MA | $4,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Redwood Library and Athenaeum | Newport, RI | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manomet | Manomet, MA | $3,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| 18TH Street Arts Center | Santa Monica, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| 18TH Street Arts Complex | Santa Monica, CA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Provincetown Art Association and Museum | Provincetown, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trails and Open Space Coalition | Colorado Springs, CO | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Truro Historical Society | Truro, MA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| West End Racing Club | Truro, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allens Neck Friends Meeting | Dartmouth, MA | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bon Shen Ling | Woodside, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute of Noetic Sciences | Petaluma, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce | Manitou Springs, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Outer Cape Chorale | S Wellfleet, MA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill | Truro, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Wcai the Cape and Islands NPR Station | Woods Hole, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pikes Peak Permaculture | Manitou Springs, CO | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lloyd Center for the Environment | Dartmouth, MA | $1,250 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cape Cod Museum of Art | Dennis, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fountain Creek Watershed | Colorado Springs, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stonington Community Rowing | Stonington, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Wellfleet Historical Society & Museu | Wellfleet, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| 18TH Streets Arts Center | Santa Monica, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Allen's Neck Friends Meeting | South Dartmouth, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
35 of 58 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Newport Hospital Foundation
GENERAL OPERATING PURPOSE - White Bison
GENERAL OPERATING PURPOSES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 85 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 28 | $159,000 | $2,500 |
| 2021 | 30 | $170,000 | $3,500 |
| 2022 | 29 | $120,000 | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $123,000 | $4,000 |
| 2024 | 28 | $120,000 | $2,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 41% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 185, Pittsburgh, PA, 15230. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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