· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| GLYNWOOD | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UPPER EAST SIDE | $1,000 |
| SALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| MAYSLES CINEMA AND FOUNDATION | $750 |
| HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION | $600 |
| FISHES AND LOAVES | $500 |
| DIA ART FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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 LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING ALLOGENEIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CMCOLLEGIATE MIDDLE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUL RYEDERS INC ↗
- 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 ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Findlay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Findlay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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