· Private foundation
Harriet Ames Charitable Trust 8162-06-40
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 $10k26 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SU RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| SOI DOG FOUNDATION USA | $5,000 |
| IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS | $5,000 |
| PARTICIPANT INC | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $5,000 |
| HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| ART AT A TIME LIKE THIS | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,500 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $2,500 |
| SECOND SHIFT STUDIO SPACE | $2,500 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- PIPARTICIPANT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +588%
- H5HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +66%
- ASALL STARS PROJECT INC6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- SISURF INCone grant, 2024 · $50k
- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +8%
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.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art At a Time Like This 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
52 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. 52 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 PARTICIPANT INC ↗
- Who funds SU RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Art At A Time Like This Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUEER ART INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Soi Dog Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Green Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND 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 Ames Family Foundation 8162-07-12 · Kate Cassidy Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Jct Foundation · J & Ar Foundation · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Willem de Kooning Foundation · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · David B Kriser Foundation Inc · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · Pilzer 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 Harriet Ames Charitable Trust 8162-06-40 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
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.