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Fourdoves Foundation
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $250k+9 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tsadra Foundation | $2,875,000 |
| Way to Rise | $1,500,000 |
| Acumen Fund Inc | $520,000 |
| Supermajority Education Fund | $500,000 |
| Scenic Hudson Inc | $500,000 |
| Center for Artistic Activism | $315,513 |
| American Independent Foundation | $250,000 |
| Institute For Freedoms Inc | $250,000 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $250,000 |
| University of Chicago | $30,000 |
| Mara Elephant Project USA Inc | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- TFTSADRA FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $14M · revenue +39% · 100% of their budget
- AFACUMEN FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $10M · revenue +50%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- VLVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +80%
- SISTOP IVORY INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -32% · 62% of their budget
- TRTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +8%
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 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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
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 asia foundation (taf) is an international nonprofit organization working to solve the toughest social and economic challenges in asia and the pacific. (continued on schedule o)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Artistic Activism Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 TSADRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds WAY TO RISE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LATSE INC ↗
- Who funds French-American School of New York ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds SUPERMAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADM CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds STOP IVORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
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: The Ford Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fourdoves 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.
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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