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Findlay Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Findlay Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Findlay Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $51k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $14,500 |
| SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| MSK KIDS CHARITY | $4,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $3,500 |
| SALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| SOUL RYEDERS | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF UPPER EAST SIDE | $1,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| GLYNWOOD | $1,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| MAYSLES CINEMA AND FOUNDATION | $750 |
| HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION | $600 |
| ILAN LAEL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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 +10% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +35%
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $16k · revenue +19%
- TSTHE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC2× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +286%
Funded once
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING ALLOGENEIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- OLOPEN LEARNING EXCHANGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +92%
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 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…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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).
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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 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…
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 American Museum of Natural History. 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 43 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 143 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN LEARNING EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL RYEDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES 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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · C L C Kramer Foundation Inc · The Fairfield Foundation · Middle Road Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · Elliott Family Foundation Inc · Steven Aresty Foundation · Harvey 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 Findlay Family Foundation 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.
- Connecticut Resource Conservation & Dev Area Inc — 100% of income from government
- Salisbury Housing Committee Inc — 70% of income from government
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Housatonic Youth Service Bureau Inc — 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% 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.