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Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$430k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.1MEducation$375kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$16kCommunity Improvement$10kCivil Rights$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN THEATRE WING$25,000
THE ASCAP FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$20,000
NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC$20,000
THE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC$20,000
YARNWIRE INC$15,000
SAINT PETERS UNIVERSITY$12,500
BINGHAMTON PHILHARMONIC INC$12,500
COUNCIL ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES STATEN IS$12,500
STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ART CTR NEW BRUNS$12,500
ARTSMART$10,000
PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY NEW YORK$10,000
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY$10,000
EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 14%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $20k → 7%MYRA S BARNES INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL 24: $25k → 11%CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSO: $50k → 11%DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 5%NEWARK BOYS CHORUS SCHOOL: $20k → 16%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $20k → 7%NEWARK BOYS CHORUS SCHOOL: $20k → 16%NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY: $25k → 17%TRENTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $20k → 11%AMERICAN THEATRE WING: $25k → 17%THE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 10%TRENTON MUSIC MAKERS INC: $20k → 11%NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $20k → 17%THE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 10%AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 17%THE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 10%NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY: $20k → 17%NEW JERSEY BALLET: $20k → 4%AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 17%NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $20k → 17%AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 17%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $20k → 16%NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $20k → 17%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $20k → 16%NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY: $20k → 17%SYMPHONY IN C A NEW JERSEY: $20k → 16%SYMPHONY IN C A NEW JERSEY: $20k → 16%NEWARK BOYS CHORUS SCHOOL: $20k → 16%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $20k → 16%NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $30k → 17%ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 17%ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $20k → 17%ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $20k → 17%PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $20k → 17%PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $20k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 17%AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20k → 17%WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER: $25k → 17%WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $20k → 17%WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $20k → 17%THE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY-: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 58 repeat orgs$721k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
42

Total granted

$2.9M
$551k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +334%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +58%
  • MS
    MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CA
    CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • TC
    TRENTON COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.

Arts & Culture
2
Charleston Symphony Orchestra

The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
3
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the annapolis symphony orchestra is to inspire, educate and enrich lives near and far by creating extraordinary musical experiences with uncompromising artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
4
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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5
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.

Arts & Culture
6
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
7
Jeunes Virtuoses De New York Inc

Jeunes Virtuoses de New York" (JVNY) is an ensemble of exceptionally accomplished young musicians who perform on both sides of the Atlantic both as a string camerata, and in various chamber music configurations. Our mission is to transform…

Arts & Culture
8
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
9
Foundation for Modern Opera
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10
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

—
11
Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
12
Vanguard Concerts
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Hospital Systems and Skille…International Development G…Cancer Research and SupportProfessional Business Assoc…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr20%23%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr10%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr20%19%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr10%41%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/82
the rest of the field
12%
7,869/67,582

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.

04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 115 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
51/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $125,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $123,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSICAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC — $109,500 · Arts & CultureNEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $105,000 · Arts & CultureORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $90,000 · Arts & CultureELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $84,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC — $80,000 · Arts & Culture+42 more — $1,143,500 · Arts & Culture+42 moreBAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY — $75,000 · OtherBAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONYTHE MONTCLAIR ORCHESTRA INC — $70,000 · OtherTHE MONTCLAIR ORCHESTRA INCPHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $60,000 · OtherPHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETYSYMPHONY IN C A NEW JERSEY — $55,000 · OtherWHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER — $45,000 · OtherTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY — $44,500 · OtherADELPHI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA — $40,000 · Other+44 more — $661,500 · Other+44 moreNewark Boys Chorus School — $75,000 · EducationSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY — $46,500 · EducationWHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationOCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationUNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC — $62,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW CITY KIDS INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentST PAULS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBRANCH BROOK PARK ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$2,195,500Other$1,051,000Education$256,500Youth Development$97,000Community Improvement$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $125,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $123,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $110,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC — $109,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetNEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $105,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $90,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $84,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC — $80,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetBAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY — $75,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNewark Boys Chorus School — $75,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ORCHESTRA INC — $70,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetUNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC — $62,000 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $60,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetASCAP FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $57,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBinghamton Philharmonic Inc — $57,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNew Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra — $52,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY — $46,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORCHESTRATING DREAMS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetADELPHI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA — $40,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetEMBER CHORAL ARTS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetWHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALL SEASONS CHAMBER PLAYERS — $35,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC — $35,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSYMPHONY IN C — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYARNWIRE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF THE MORRIS AREA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARTSMART — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetALEXANDER & BUONO WORLDWIDE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW JERSEY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA — $16,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHERN DUTCHESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $15,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budget
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 NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds PERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds BAY-ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds Newark Boys Chorus School ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds ASCAP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Binghamton Philharmonic Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ORCHESTRATING DREAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds ADELPHI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds EMBER CHORAL ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL SEASONS CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
  • Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HARMONY PROGRAM 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Geraldine R Dodge Fou…D'Addario Foundation …Investors Foundation …Princeton Area Commun…Community Foundation …Citizens Philanthropi…Turrell FundPseg Foundation IncGeorge a Ohl Jr TrustBristol-Myers Squibb …The Howard Gilman Fou…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ45.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc

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 Frank and Lydia Bergen 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Perkins Center for the Arts — 24% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
  • Newark School of the Arts — 20% of income from government
  • Bay-Atlantic Symphony — 16% of income from government
  • The Discovery Orchestra Inc — 14% of income from government
  • New Jersey Festival Orchestra — 13% of income from government
  • Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Union City Music Project Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Arts Horizons Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Branch Brook Park Alliance Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Music for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines