· Private foundation
Bassett 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ocean Conservancy | $3,000 |
| Humaine World for Animals fka HS of | $2,000 |
| Xerces Society for Invertebrate Con | $2,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $2,000 |
| Native American Rights Fund | $2,000 |
| American Indian Science Eng Soc | $2,000 |
| Raptor Trust | $2,000 |
| Community Medical Clinic of Kershaw | $2,000 |
| American Indian College fund | $2,000 |
| Market Street Mission | $1,000 |
| Cornell Lab of Ornithology | $1,000 |
| Arts Center of Kershaw County | $1,000 |
| First Nations Development Institute | $1,000 |
| Raritan Headwaters Assoc | $1,000 |
| NJ Conservation Foundation | $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 (FY18–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% 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
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 +86% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND2× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +161%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED2× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +111%- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCY2× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +87%
- HWHumane World for Animals Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +61%
- ABAmerican Battlefield Trustgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +50%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Newark Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals 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 44 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) — 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 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 40 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 AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC OF KERSHAW ↗
- Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Catching the Dream ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LAMINGTON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Leavens Foundation Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Victoria Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Bassett 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.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% 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.