· Private foundation
Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,030 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,750 |
| FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| UNITED HELP UKRAINE | $2,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH | $1,500 |
| MONTAUK FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| NYY LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK | $1,000 |
| FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| USA FOR UNHCR | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation’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, 56% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 35% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FSFAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +50%
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +38%
- THTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- TNThe New Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +35%
- PFPLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United Statesone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -98%
- TCTHE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -59%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mouse King Foundation. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
104 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. 104 of the 150 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTAUK VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTAUK FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds MICROFINANCING PARTNERS IN AFRICA ↗
- Who funds PLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United States ↗
- Who funds THE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · Widder Foundation Inc · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · Kate Cassidy Foundation · The Jct Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Janet & Robert W Postma Foundation · Maude Pritchard Char Trust Xxxxx2009 · Yaffa Foundation Inc
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 Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.