· Private foundation
Braatz Fund for Culture Community and Conservation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT INC | $7,000 |
| NEW SUFFOLK WATERFRONT FUND INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| LANDCRAFT GARDEN FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| EDUCATE THE CHILDREN INC | $1,000 |
| PECONIC BAYKEEPER INC | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION SOUTHOLD TOWN INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 96% of your 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- LGLANDCRAFT GARDEN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +20%
- NSNEW SUFFOLK WATERFRONT FUND INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +29%
- ETEDUCATE THE CHILDREN INC3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TMThe Mountain Institute Incone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -61%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY - YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIROone grant, 2022 · $4k
- HIHALLOCKVILLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +61%
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.
East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Conserve, enhance, and celebrate our distinctive catskill sanctuary through sustainable horticulture, responsible land stewardship, and innovative educational programming
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.
Protect nantucket's natural world and rural character by holding and enforcing conservation restrictions, commissioning scientific research, monitoring development proposals, engaging in legal proceedings to protect natural resources, and…
To preserve land and promote stewardship and education to conserve tuckernuck island's natural communities and unique coastal ecology.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
The organization is formed for the purpose of restoring the health of the shinnecock bay through the cultivation of sugar kelp. activities combine environmental restoration, traditional shinnecock knowledge, climate resilience efforts, and…
The island institute cultivates uncommon conversations about the nature of vital communities, the web of human relationships and responsibilities, and our connections to the greater natural world.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Suffolk Waterfront Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mountain Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 LANDCRAFT GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SUFFOLK WATERFRONT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds The Mountain Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HALLOCKVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHOLD TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC BAYKEEPER 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: The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Braatz Fund for Culture Community and Conservation 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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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