· Private foundation
Armand G Erpf Fund
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 $10k21 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSTIQUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CATSKILL CENTER CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| MANY HOPES INC | $13,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAN BALLET | $9,000 |
| PROJECT ALS | $5,000 |
| CATSKILL RECREATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE EXPLORER'S CLUB | $5,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION - BOULDER | $5,000 |
| AMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| ARKVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
54 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- CCCATSKILL CENTER FOR CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +111%
- TMThe Mustique Charitable Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +93%
- TNThe New School5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TATHE ASIA SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -12%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY THE SUE ERPF VAN DE BOVENKAMP CONSERVATION FUone grant, 2019 · $25k
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +101%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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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 The Catskill Recreation Center 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 72 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 CATSKILL CENTER FOR CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The Mustique Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds MANY HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CATSKILL RECREATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Margaretville Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Armand G Erpf Fund 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.
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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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