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Blue Skies Farm 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sky High Farm | $145,000 |
| Stone Barns Restoration Corp | $50,000 |
| West Side Campaign Against Hunger | $20,000 |
| Madoo Conservancy Inc | $10,000 |
| New York Sun Works Inc | $10,000 |
| Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden | $5,000 |
| MAD Foundation | $5,000 |
| New Yorkers for Parks | $2,500 |
| Second Chance Foods | $500 |
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 (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- SHSKY HIGH FARM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $245k · revenue -56%
- WSWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +4%
- MFMAD FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- FSFood & Society Aspen Instituteone grant, 2023 · $15k
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +43%
PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORPgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
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.
Council on the environment, inc. d/b/a grownyc ("grownyc") empowers all new yorkers to equitably access fresh, locally grown food and neighborhood green spaces, reduce waste, and care for the environment.
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden cultivates healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning and creative play.
New York Sustainable Agricultural Working Group (NYSAWG) is a not-for-profit organization located in western New York to raise awareness of issues affecting the sustainability of the food and agriculture system. The Organizations mission…
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Hudson carbon is dedicated to catalyzing the adoption of regenerative organic agriculture by advancing our scientific understanding of its practices and systems, and their potential to radically reverse climate change and environmental…
Denver urban gardens' (dug) mission is to provide access, skills, and resources for people to grow healthy food in community and regenerate urban green spaces.
The goal of Farm School NYC is to train the next generation of farmers in New York City and beyond, with a focus on limited resourced and socially disadvantaged individuals and communities, and to increase access to healthy, local food in…
Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…
Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…
To revitalize urban areas through agricultural and education programming. the organization offers practical, technical, and financial resources in support of environmental stewardship, equitable access to healthy food, and ecologically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is Mad Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds MAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SUN WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MADOO CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOODS 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Blue Skies Farm 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.
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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