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Belvedere 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$61kEducation$58kInternational$55kHousing & Shelter$51kRecreation & Sports$17kHuman Services$9kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,250
Median grant
9
States reached
$869k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CAPITAL$6,000
UNDER ONE ROOF$5,000
CARVER FOUNDATION$5,000
HOMETOWN HEROES$4,000
OPEN DOOR SHELTER$3,000
GIVE WELL$3,000
HOSPITALITY CENTER SE WISCONSIN$3,000
SKATING CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE$3,000
TETON LITERACY CENTER$2,250
BRIEN MCMAHON HS CLASS OF 2025$2,000
GRASSROOTS TENNIS FOUNDATION$2,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$2,000
KEYSTONE HOUSE$2,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,000
MASONIC CARE CHARITY FUND OF CT$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $2k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $1k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $9k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%UNDER ONE ROOF: $6k → 9%UNDER ONE ROOF: $5k → 9%UNDER ONE ROOF: $5k → 9%UNDER ONE ROOF: $5k → 9%UNDER ONE ROOF: $4k → 9%UNDER ONE ROOF: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
WY
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 23 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
16

Total granted

$231k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+33%

Still filing today

43%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +130%
  • TC
    THE CARVER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +89%
  • UO
    UNDER ONE ROOF INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S INN
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • PM
    PONUS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
5
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
6
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
7
Foodshare Inc

Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.

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8
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
9
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
10
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Us Backgammon Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CAPITAL: $31,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CAPITALGRASSROOTS TENNIS FOUNDATION: $9,000 · OtherGRASSROOTS TENNIS FOUNDATIONSKATING CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE: $6,000 · OtherSKATING CLUB OF JACKSONVILLETHE CHILDREN'S INN: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherHOSPITALITY CENTER SE WISCONSIN: $5,000 · OtherBRIEN MCMAHON HS CLASS OF 2025: $4,200 · OtherPONUS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO: $3,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,600 · Other+18 more: $34,440 · Other+18 moreTHE CARVER INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INCUNDER ONE ROOF INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesUNDER ONE ROOF INCBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,200 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INCFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE CLEAR FUND: $36,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $13,000 · Housing & ShelterKEYSTONE HOUSE INC: $8,000 · HealthHometown Heroes Inc: $4,000 · HealthTETON LITERACY CENTER: $4,500 · EducationJackson Hole Community School: $1,000 · EducationUS BACKGAMMON FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$107,040Human Services$73,200Philanthropy$36,500International$18,000Housing & Shelter$13,000Health$12,000Education$5,500Arts & Culture$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $36,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNDER ONE ROOF INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE HOUSE INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHometown Heroes Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Hole Community School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLGBT Center of SE Wisconsin: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNDER ONE ROOF INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Hometown Heroes Inc ↗
  • Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Jackson Hole Community School ↗
  • Who funds US BACKGAMMON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Synchrony FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Belvedere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Belvedere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Keystone House Inc: 66% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home