· Private foundation
Civitas 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAL COKER MEMORIAL BUCKAROO BENEFIT FUND | $40,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY | $30,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES | $20,000 |
| WILD COURAGE | $20,000 |
| LAURENCE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LA PLATA COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH | $3,000 |
| THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON | $1,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC | $500 |
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $500 |
| MUSIC UNITED | $250 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $200 |
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 (FY20–25, $492k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TGTHE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue +35%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO2× · 2019–2020 · $101k · revenue +24%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TBThe Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanone grant, 2019 · $61k
- SISOCIETY IGNATIAN FELLOWS - LOYOLA UNIVone grant, 2021 · $50k
- HCHAL COKER MEMORIAL BUCKAROOone grant, 2019 · $50k
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's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wild Courage Inc. 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 44 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hal Coker Memorial Buckaroo Benefit Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds LA PLATA COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD COURAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ESALEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LAURENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOOSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HERITAGE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ 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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Civitas 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 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.