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Elkes Foundation III
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $697k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVERFEST FPS INC | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| GRASSROOTS SOCCER | $55,000 |
| TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION | $43,150 |
| JAMESON HUMANE | $40,500 |
| HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC | $35,100 |
| JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER | $35,000 |
| UKRAINIAN RESCUE HOME | $30,000 |
| READ TO GROW | $30,000 |
| BRONX LACROSSE | $30,000 |
| BERNIE'S BOOK BANK | $30,000 |
| PAJAMA PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| WRITING DOWNTOWN | $30,000 |
| FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES | $25,000 |
| SNACC | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $734k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 31 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- FYFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $475k · revenue +49%
- TJTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +53%
- PIPARENTCHILD INC6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- MHMARIN HEALTH FOUNDATIOBNone grant, 2023 · $50k
- KBKING BAUDOUN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- RTREADER TO READERone grant, 2019 · $30k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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,…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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.
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…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parentchild Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlies Acres. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
124 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. 124 of the 215 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
- Who funds MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Writing Downtown Inc ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFEST FPS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds AIRBNBORG INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds The Littlest Lamb ↗
- Who funds HACKS HACKERS ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
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 New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · St Faith's House Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mbia Foundation · Pcsb Community 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 Elkes Foundation III 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
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 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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