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Apas 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 |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRANKLIN MARSHALL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MET OPERA | $3,750 |
| FATHER BILLS MAINSPRING | $3,500 |
| DOVE | $2,600 |
| DOVE | $2,500 |
| URSULINE ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ST ANN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| HARVARD BUS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERV | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NY CITY | $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, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 14 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TGTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +109%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC4× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +53%
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- AMAPPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUBone grant, 2024 · $2k
- GFGB FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $2k
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +10%
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.
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…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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).
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society for the Relief of Women and Children. 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 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 — 0.0% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 118 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 THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF EAST HAMPTONINC ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds FIGHTING CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Mary Jane Hipp Brock Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Burch Family Foundation · The Thomas J Edelman Foundation · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · J & Ar Foundation · Kazickas Family Foundation · George L Ohrstrom Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II
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 Apas 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.
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.