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Belvedere Charitable 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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,304
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,654
Organizations funded a year
5 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$702k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Belvedere Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving34$2.7M79%
FY20239$1.6M33%
FY202218$5.2M61%
FY202116$3.2M69%
FY20206$126k50%
FY20196$123k50%
FY20189$8.4M78%
FY20175$6.5Mn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$16MPhilanthropy$5.2MEducation$3.2MAnimals$2.2MArts & Culture$1.7MSocial Science$1.3MScience & Tech$646kInternational$245kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NM
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Belvedere Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWaterkeeper Alliance Inc: $14,250,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetCambridge in America: $567,212 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCape Eleuthera Foundation Inc: $529,022 over 2y, 14% of budgetSuperhumans Ukraine Inc: $205,725 over 1y, 78% of budgetPartnership for Policy Integrity: $202,830 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetGeoversity Foundation: $188,365 over 1y, 23% of budgetPerry Institute for Marine Science: $182,569 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $154,369 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCook Inletkeeper: $119,488 over 1y, 12% of budgetNorth Carolina Coastal Federation Inc: $75,926 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Fishing Watch Inc: $71,159 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetConservation Strategy Fund: $56,698 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRare: $50,585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOnly One Inc: $50,368 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $50,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative Movement: $50,210 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Leatherback Project Inc: $50,176 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetCoalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives: $44,256 over 1y, 13% of budgetMultiplier: $41,506 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $30,221 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $25,309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeconic Land Trust Inc: $25,309 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDogwood Alliance Inc: $25,206 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetP E R C Inc: $24,992 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPanacetacea: $24,495 over 1y, 51% of budgetGlobal Justice Ecology Project Inc: $12,093 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Moore Charitable Foundation IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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.

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How do I get to Belvedere Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Belvedere Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Belvedere Charitable Foundation

How much does Belvedere Charitable Foundation give?
Belvedere Charitable Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $3,817,122 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Belvedere Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (48%), Philanthropy (15%), Education (10%).
Who are Belvedere Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Waterkeeper Alliance Inc ($14M), Cambridge in America ($567k), Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc ($529k).
Does Belvedere Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Belvedere Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Belvedere Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Moore Charitable Foundation Inc, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
Where is Belvedere Charitable Foundation based?
Belvedere Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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