· Private foundation
Driver Family 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 $10k28 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $188k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU EARLY BOOK SOCIETY | $45,000 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES | $22,500 |
| PACE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIODIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $11,966 |
| RE FILM COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| DOCUMENTARY EDUCATION RESOURCE | $10,000 |
| WOMEN MAKE MOVIES | $10,000 |
| FILM FORUM | $8,000 |
| LEGACY GLOBAL PROGRAMS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN TRUSTEES FOR THE BRITISH LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTEREST | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 17 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- PUPACE UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +2%
- WMWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +7%
- YFYouth & Family Counseling Service Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- RCRANDOLPH COLLEGE SARA DRIVER FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MMM MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…
The NFPF is a nonprofit organization established in the District of Columbia resulting from an Act of Congress in order to preserve and make publicly accessible our nations film heritage. The NFPF works with archives to preserve American…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To further environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography and film.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Flow Chart Foundation. 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 47 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 — 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.
32 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. 32 of the 76 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 ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN TRUST FOR THE BRITISH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLOW CHART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Legacy Global Programs ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · 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 Driver Family 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.
- Turning Point Inc — 5% of income from government
- Documentary Educational Resources 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.