· Private foundation
Beatrice Renfield 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $318k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $102,500 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $65,000 |
| CT COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| BEST LITTLE CAT HOUSE IN PA | $50,000 |
| DANBURY NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $40,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $28,240 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE | $25,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| REACH WESTERN CT | $25,000 |
| CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMON CAUSE | $10,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 36 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $618k · revenue +6%
- SYSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +0%
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- PUPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +131%
- APAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $34k · revenue +90%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
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 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…
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International House and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
123 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. 123 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REACH Western CT Inc ↗
- Who funds The Danbury Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds The Best Little Cat House in PA ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA) ↗
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 New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Synchrony Foundation · American Express Foundation
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 Beatrice Renfield 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.
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Hispa Inc — 26% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Project Music Heals Us Inc — 2% of income from government
- Act Now Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Danbury Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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