· Private foundation
Gerda and Ole Skaarup Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUND WATERS | $5,250 |
| SHIELDS CLASS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SOUTH ST SEAPORT MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| TURMIQUIRE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| INSPIRICA INC | $1,000 |
| SHIELDS CLASS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE | $1,000 |
| WMHT TV | $1,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +16% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SISOUNDWATERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +61%
- RJROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY6× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +391%
- WWAMC7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TGTHE GREENWICH LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -66%
- NFNORTHSTAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -63%
- MOMuseum of Modern Artone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -20%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
Conserving the land. connecting the community. greenwich land trust conserves open space, connects our community with the natural world, and inspires the next generation of conservationists. the land trust permanently protects and cares…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turimiquire 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.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 68 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 SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Call-A-Ride of Greenwich Inc ↗
- Who funds ANN WIGMORE NATURAL HEALTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds TWIN COUNTY RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY 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: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · T Backer Fund Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · Hrbt Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family 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 Gerda and Ole Skaarup 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Guthrie Center Corp — 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum 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.