· Private foundation
Cogitandum Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCENIC HUDSON | $45,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE | $30,000 |
| BRIARCLIFF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $14,000 |
| GO SEE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SING SING PRISON MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WNET FOR FIRING LINE | $2,500 |
| TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION | $2,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC | $1,500 |
| REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS | $1,500 |
| OSSINING CHILDRENS CENTER | $1,000 |
| AFGHAN EVAC | $1,000 |
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, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SHScenic Hudson Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $166k · revenue +66%
- HVHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $147k · revenue +330%
- NLNEIGHBORS LINK CORP6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- SPSCARBOROUGH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
- RMROCKWELL MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CCCHRISTINES CRITTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +44%
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 primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
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The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…
Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…
The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.
Artswestchester's mission is to create an equitable, inclusive, vibrant and sustainable westchester county in which the arts are integral to and integrated into every facet of life.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Protects and restores the hudson river from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies.
Productions
To promote the preservation, protection, and balanced use of the wallkill valley through acquisition, holding, and management of fee simple title conservation easements.
Fundraising, marketing and communication and public policy for the hudson river park.
To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson River Museum of Westchester and the most unlike its peers is Ezra Jack Keats 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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 60 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 Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds SING SING PRISON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ossining Padres Hispanos ↗
- Who funds OSSINING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSSINING LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ossining Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINES CRITTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Too Young to Wed Inc ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE 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: Hudson Road Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Chapman Family Foundation · The Van Steen Foundation · St Faith's House Foundation · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · David Swope Fund U Art VIII of Rev Tr Dtd July 25 2017 · Dede Emerson Foundation Inc · Phelps Community Foundation Inc · Pilzer Foundation Inc
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 Cogitandum Inc 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.
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 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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