· Private foundation
David G Taft 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER | $12,600 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TAFT LEGACY | $11,350 |
| UNION CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CLUBHOUSE | $5,000 |
| FAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL | $4,100 |
| THE FRIENDS IN ACTION | $3,100 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NAMI CHARLOTTE | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $1,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| MAINE NEEDS INC | $550 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $500 |
| CENTER FOR WILDLIFE | $300 |
| JOAN G LOVERING HEALTH CENTER | $300 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% 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.
54 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 37 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, 89% 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
- THTHE HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS' CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +39%
GREENPEACE FUND INC3× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +31%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CCCLUBHOUSE CHARLOTTEone grant, 2022 · $12k
- SYSUMMERLIN YOUTH SPORTSone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
End hunger together.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shakti Rising 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 93 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 HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS' CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKTI RISING INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMERLIN YOUTH SPORTS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds Supportive Housing Communities 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Trexler Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · Reny Charitable Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank 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 David G Taft 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.
- Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.