· Private foundation
Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $333,333 |
| CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC | $20,000 |
| THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES | $19,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ROWING INC | $5,000 |
| THE HENRY FORD | $5,000 |
| SCITUATE LITTLE LEAGUE INC | $2,500 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $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 (FY17–24, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k 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
- PFPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $186k · revenue +77%
- FRFRAXA Research Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $180k · revenue +32%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation6× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICEone grant, 2023 · $333k
- MGMass Generalone grant, 2022 · $65k
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOR PROMISE PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
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.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Education and Research
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The organization's mission is to be a leader in the education and development of children with disabilities increasing the children's confidence in their individual abilities, preparing them to engage in the community, and expanding their…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…
Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pickleberry Pie Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds PLAY PLACE AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM GUTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PICKLEBERRY PIE INC ↗
- Who funds Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SCITUATE LITTLE LEAGUE INC 2210805 ↗
- Who funds Piers Park Sailing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PAUL ROBERT CAREY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Anne Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Allegra C Ford-Thomas 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Riverview School 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.
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