· Private foundation
Fordham Street Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUNDS FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $40,000 |
| PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION | $40,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RAISING A READER MASSACHUSETTS | $20,000 |
| TEACHING MATTERS | $20,000 |
| STREET SQUASH INC | $20,000 |
| THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC | $20,000 |
| SOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS | $20,000 |
| EXALT YOUTH | $20,000 |
| BRONX LACROSSE | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| READER TO READER | $20,000 |
| THE HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC | $20,000 |
| BUSINESS UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING AND DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $435k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
58 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- EAEast African Community Services8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +669%
- RSRAINIER SCHOLARS8× · 2018–2025 · $295k · revenue +282%
- LGLET'S GET READY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CUCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2020 · $70k
- OWONE WORLD NOWgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +94%
- RUREACH UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue ×22
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.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…
Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Horn of Africa Services. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 75 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 EDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds East African Community Services ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds BELONG Partners ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds READER TO READER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds BEAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds Team Read ↗
- Who funds MENTORING IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Education ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER ON THE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD NOW ↗
- Who funds REACH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE ENGINE INC ↗
- Who funds NYC SALT 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: School's Out Washington · Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Discuren Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Pwc Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson 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 Fordham Street 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Bottom Line 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.