· Private foundation
Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WNETCHANNEL 13 | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $47,814 |
| WNYC | $30,000 |
| THE FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER | $27,500 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSN INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY | $25,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $20,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC | $10,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $10,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CRUSADERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS IN | $10,000 |
| THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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.
78 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +3%- FAFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $140k · revenue +17%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- TCTHE CAPE & ISLANDS NPR STATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- YCYMCA CAPE CODone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MSMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY AT MOORHEAD Cone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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 museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 89 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · George H Lusk Trust · Friendship Fund Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Lovell Charitable Foundation · Harken Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc · The Baltimore Family Fund · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Rochester Area 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 Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Historic Highfield Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation 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.
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