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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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$50kEnvironment$37kHuman Services$21kArts & Culture$17kReligion$15kHousing & Shelter$10kHealth$8kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$392k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKLIN MARSHALL COLLEGE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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
ST ANN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERV$1,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF NY$1,000
HARVARD BUS SCHOOL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FOOD BANK FOR NY CITY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $500 → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES: $500 → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES: $500 → 8%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $1k → 14%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SVC: $3k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SVC: $3k → 7%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%INERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 7%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERV: $1k → 7%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 7%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $750 → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $525 → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $500 → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $240 → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEV: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
DE
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 56 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
47

Total granted

$159k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TG
    THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +109%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +53%
  • INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • AM
    APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +10%
  • GF
    GB FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
4
Municipal Art Society of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
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
8
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
9
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
35/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FATHER BILLS MAINSPRING: $9,000 · OtherFATHER BILLS MAINSPRINGIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOVE INC: $6,100 · OtherDOVE INCURSULINE ACADEMY: $4,500 · OtherST ANN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $4,412 · OtherMET OPERA: $3,750 · Other+74 more: $58,482 · Other+74 moreTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC: $21,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACA…FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $7,000 · EducationFRANKLIN & MARSHALL CO…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SM…EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $3,500 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGEGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $1,590 · EducationTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $26,200 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERV…PECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $2,900 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST…THE GARDEN CLUB OF EAST HAMPTONINC: $1,160 · Environment+4 more: $1,610 · EnvironmentINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAIT…THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $5,775 · Human ServicesTHE HOME …MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $1,000 · Human ServicesMEDICINE …HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING F…+3 more: $1,240 · Human Services+3 moreFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DOE FUND INC: $1,250 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC: $250 · Housing & Shelter564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $500 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $480 · Arts & CultureTHE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL: $450 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $400 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $280 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $250 · Arts & CultureTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $200 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $275 · Arts & CultureFIGHTING CHANCE INC: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $500 · HealthEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $500 · Health
Other$95,244Education$39,090Environment$31,870Human Services$17,015Housing & Shelter$7,500Arts & Culture$5,335Health$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $26,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOVE INC: $6,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $5,775 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2,650 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF EAST HAMPTONINC: $1,160 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICINE FOR PEACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHTING CHANCE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADOO CONSERVANCY INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $590 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMPLE TABLE FOR EVERYONE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellness Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIEND OF PLEASANT BAY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $210 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncMary Jane Hipp Brock …Eastern Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…The Burch Family Foun…The Thomas J Edelman …Stephanie & Lawrence …J & Ar FoundationKazickas Family Found…George L Ohrstrom Fou…Massachusetts Bankers…Yawkey Foundation II
Boston Foundation IncMA16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Apas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Apas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home