· Private foundation
Frank & Ruth E Caruso 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $18,000 |
| BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $18,000 |
| THE ART THERAPY PROJECT | $18,000 |
| ARTISTIC NOISE | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN OF PROMISE | $10,000 |
| DAY ONE | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE EDUCATION | $6,500 |
| WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS | $6,500 |
| POSSIBILITY PROJECT | $6,500 |
| A FAIR SHAKE FOR YOUTH | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN MUSIC THERAPY ASSOC | $1,000 |
| DAY ONE | $50 |
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, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TATHE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +13%
- DODay One of New York Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue +48%
- ANARTISTIC NOISE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- BCBROOKLYN CONVERATORY OF MUSICone grant, 2022 · $18k
- TRTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +122%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.
New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.
The dreamyard project, inc. (dreamyard) is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to working with bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways toward equity and opportunity.
Founded in 2012, young new yorkers' restorative art diversion programs allow young people to exit the criminal legal system, have their cases dismissed and sealed, and avoid a life-long criminal record. in addition, our graduate programs…
Brooklyn children's theatre empowers youth through musical theatre, reimagining arts education by centering the whole child and prioritizing belonging and equity.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
At young audiences new york (yany) we believe all children should be able to engage, explore, imagine, and create. we provide innovative and interactive performances, classroom residencies, professional development workshops, and family…
To inspire the growth of youth, families, and the community through quality arts and education programs. the five pillars of our mission are (1) whole-person development through arts, (2) creating a safe and loving space for creative risk…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Therapy Project Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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 THE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Day One of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTIC NOISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO BE INC ↗
- Who funds ART CREATES US INC ↗
- Who funds A Fair Shake for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds UPBEAT NYC INC ↗
- Who funds Extreme Kids and Crew Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC ↗
- Who funds THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIME IN CHILDRENS ARTS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSIC THERAPY ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Valentine Perry Snyder Fund Xxxxx9001 · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · American Express Foundation · Four Friends Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ford 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 Frank & Ruth E Caruso 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.