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Falcon Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEN AMERICAN CENTER inc | $100,000 |
| ICAAD | $25,000 |
| Forum on Life Culture & Society | $20,000 |
| Natural Areas Conservancy | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
The Trustees of Princeton University6× · 2018–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +8%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +49%- PAPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $560k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- EDEarth Day Networkone grant, 2023 · $60k
- EDEARTH DAY NETWORK INCone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -13%
- GFGoodnation Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +269%
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 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,…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Media Advocacy Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners for Health 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 27 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 — 5% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 54 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 Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVOCATES AGAINST DISCRIMINATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTH DAY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds LETS TALK MENOPAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANANSI CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FORDHAM LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEDIA ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUE KIDS 1 ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION 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: Sonder Foundation · Uberoi Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · American Express Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Falcon Foundation Inc 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.
- African People & Wildlife Fund Inc — 32% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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