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Graeber 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUITMAN COUNTY EDUCATION FDN | $60,892 |
| MARKS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $30,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $30,500 |
| NORTHWEST MS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $26,000 |
| DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY | $19,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $18,500 |
| BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| MCCALLIE SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FDN | $11,500 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CLARKSDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $9,500 |
| FIRST MARKS CEMETARY ASSOC | $5,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
67 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +145%- FCFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +63%
- DSDELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +236%
Funded once
- BCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- TYTHE YOUNGER FOUNDATION - HENRY MILLER FUNDone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community 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.
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 52 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 76 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST MARKS CEMETERY ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LULA RICH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: Younger Foundation · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Graeber 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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