· Private foundation
Barrie and Deedee Wigmore 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $926k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $1,253,500 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $1,000,000 |
| WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD ENDOWMENT TRUST | $849,032 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DEVELOPMENT FUND | $636,847 |
| WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD | $176,351 |
| ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| OXUF INC | $100,000 |
| THE JOAN AND SANFORD WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS & SCIENCE DBA BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| SARANAC LAKE CIVIC CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| SASK FESTIVAL OF WORDS | $35,313 |
| PAUL SMITH COLLEGE | $25,000 |
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 US giving — 77% of grant dollars ($15M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($4.6M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 23% of all-years giving ($4.6M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 25 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2022–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +39%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
- NYNew York University4× · 2022–2025 · $355k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- NLNYU LANGONE HOSPITALSone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
- NBNY BOTANICAL GARDENone grant, 2022 · $200k
- AHADIRONDACK HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
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 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."
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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 new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
Preservation & maintenance collection
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 115 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SARANAC LAKE CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds OXUF INC ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS M M WOODS - MARCHAND RD ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SARANAC LAKE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SARANAC LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds SARANAC LAKE VOLUNTARY HEALTH ASSOCIATION 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: Cloudsplitter Foundation · Staritch Foundation Inc · Adirondack Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Charles R Wood Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Barrie and Deedee Wigmore 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.
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% 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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