· Private foundation
Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $690k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INC | $125,000 |
| ASTORIA PARK CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY HEALTH SYSTEMS | $40,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE | $25,000 |
| ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| MCCLEAN HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH STATION | $25,000 |
| BOK TOWER GARDENS | $25,000 |
| MAY DUGAN CENTER | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% 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.
132 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +45%
KENYON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +23%- UCUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- PCPENINSULA COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $35k
- HHOPEWELLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +37%
- MCMERCY CORPone grant, 2017 · $20k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Fishers Island Conservancy 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 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
109 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. 109 of the 188 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 Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds Astoria Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS INC ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Nord Family 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 Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.
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