· Public charity
Curtis Granderson Foundation Inc
To aid positive youth development via education, physical fitness and nutrition as well as provide tools and resources for educational and societal advancement
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $20,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $36,145 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,045 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,050 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $5,050 |
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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($558k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($75k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($75k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2018–2025 · $146k · revenue +97%- CBCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +21%
SHARE OUR STRENGTH2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- JCJays Care Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +96%
- TPTHE PLAYERS ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +385%
- PEPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue -22%
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 base ball, inc. d/b/a the base is a not-for-profit organization working to shift the national mindset and re-imagine pathways to success for urban youth. founded in roxbury, ma, the base operates in boston and on the westside of…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
The usta mission is growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.usta is the national governing body for the sport of tennis and the recognized leader in promoting and developing the sport's growth on every level…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Washington nationals philanthropies is the official charitable arm of the washington nationals. its mission is to help children, families, and communities thrive through sports-based youth development and access to healthy food. the…
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 22 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 GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Jays Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYERS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ILITCH CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds JOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANSING REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET 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: Major League Baseball Charities 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 Curtis Granderson Foundation 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.
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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