· Private foundation
Feather Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $261k
- $250k+2 grants · $663k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $407,364 |
| FUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE | $256,027 |
| GILMAN SCHOOL | $158,254 |
| NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL | $52,429 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $50,162 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $49,335 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $48,884 |
| CYLBURN ABORETUM FRIENDS | $48,330 |
| THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL | $24,570 |
| EVERGREEN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $9,863 |
| INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE | $9,727 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION (SFAF) | $4,545 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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; $30k 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
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $544k · revenue +124%
- GSGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +111%
The Trustees of Princeton University6× · 2020–2025 · $111k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINSone grant, 2024 · $50k
- PCPRINCETON CHARTER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
- PCPrinceton Charter Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +136%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miss Porter's School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Princeton Charter Club. 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 60 years old; the field is 14. 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 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON CHARTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Princeton Charter Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Linehan Family Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust
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 Feather 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.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- The Woodstock 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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