· Private foundation
Fund for Individual Potential
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $2,325,000 |
| BREWSTER ACADEMY | $1,000,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| HABCORE | $100,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF NYC | $40,550 |
| HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $25,000 |
| THE ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| RIVERDALE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $25,000 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST | $25,000 |
| END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER WOLFEBORO CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| LIFE MINISTRIES FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 26% of your 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.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BABrewster Academy9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +34%
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +67%- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UCUNTERBERG CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $100k
- CACHALLANGED ATHLETES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To cultivate, inspire, and transform our students in a nurturing, yet challenging, educational environment to become the managers and leaders organizations need right now.
Gilman school is a diverse community dedicated to educating boys in mind, body and spirit through particular emphasis upon academic excellence, athletic participation and aesthetic appreciation. gilman seeks to produce men of character and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Ranney school's mission is to see each student mature with character, confidence and courage. upon graduation, ranney students become tomorrow's leaders, distinguished by their intelligence, ability, social conscience and character. it is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Allen-Stevenson School and the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 Brewster Academy ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RFH HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUMSON BOAT RACE INC ↗
- Who funds CPC Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS ↗
- Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION 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: The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Clare and Robert Gray Charitable Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 Fund for Individual Potential 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.
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% 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.
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