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Anthony Ford Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$554k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$1.1MArts & Culture$884kPhilanthropy$426kHealth$180kHuman Services$104kCrime & Legal$38kEducation$31kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $311k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$150,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC$86,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$75,000
NEW YORK POPS INC$34,000
DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC$31,000
NEW YORK POPS INC$26,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC$25,000
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC$25,000
FRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL OF NEW YORK INC$15,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC$13,500
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
BRONXWORKS INC$5,000
CENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION AT OYSTER$5,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$5,000
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $25k → 17%BRONXWORKS INC: $5k → 28%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $25k → 17%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $14k → 17%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $10k → 17%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $3k → 17%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $2k → 17%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $625 → 17%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 30 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
23

Total granted

$2.3M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+31%

Still filing today

90%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WM
    WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +135%
  • NY
    NEW YORK POPS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $198k · revenue +140%
  • FI
    FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $151k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • BA
    BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +31%

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 York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
11
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations

The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.

Education
12
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Media Empathy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr21%20%20–35yr13%54%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr21%5%20–35yr13%76%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
11%
3,022/28,794

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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
44/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $1,030,000 · OtherSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC+23 more — $150,700 · Other+23 moreWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $269,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCNEW YORK POPS INC — $197,700 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK POPS INCFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE — $150,500 · Arts & CultureFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAI…ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $140,500 · Arts & CultureORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INCTHE LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART — $71,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND…+10 more — $49,250 · Arts & Culture+10 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $400,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTM…THE PINES FOUNDATION INC — $19,100 · Community ImprovementLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc — $79,825 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC — $5,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC — $54,250 · HealthTHE DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC — $31,000 · HealthBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $9,250 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC — $6,000 · HealthGLEN COVE HOSPITAL — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $1,500 · HealthCENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION — $20,000 · EducationBucknell University — $8,500 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $5,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Education+4 more — $1,910 · EducationFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $10,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE DOMAINE DE CHANTILLY INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $800 · Philanthropy
Other$1,180,700Arts & Culture$878,950Community Improvement$419,100Human Services$146,325Health$107,000Education$37,910Philanthropy$26,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $1,030,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $269,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK POPS INC — $197,700 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE — $150,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $140,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc — $79,825 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART — $71,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC — $54,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT — $37,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC — $31,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PINES FOUNDATION INC — $19,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $15,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFrench-American School of New York — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $9,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBucknell University — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASCAP FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY AIDS MEMORIAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGLEN COVE HOSPITAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DOMAINE DE CHANTILLY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRONT RUNNERS NEW YORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY MALL ASSOCIATION INC — $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe French-American Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $1,110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Bessemer Giving F…The Hyde and Watson F…Broadway Caresequity …National Philanthropi…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…New York Women's Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Trustees of Colum…American Express Foun…Ibm International Fou…Jewish Communal Fund
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Express Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Anthony Ford Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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