· Private foundation
Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $508k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SHELBURNE MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $40,000 |
| SAVE THE RIVER | $40,000 |
| HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC | $37,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE | $35,000 |
| ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC | $30,000 |
| WINTERTHUR MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HILLSIDE CHILDRENS CENTER | $20,000 |
| SENECA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ABILIS INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTRY VILLAGE & MUSEUM | $20,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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 ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +211%
- STSAVE THE RIVER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +21%
- HDHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $198k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- DUDUCKS UNLIMITED INCone grant, 2020 · $30k
- NLNAPLES LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $25k
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 mission of the rochester museum and science center is to create a better world through inspiring curiosity, exploration, and engagement across history, science, culture, and the natural world.
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
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 purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
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.
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 adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Genesee Country Museum and the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Hospital. 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 68 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds New York Museum of Transportation ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Genesee Valley Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNT HOLLOW RACE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE AQUINAS INSTITUTE OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN HOWARD SCHOOL ↗
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Ibm International Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Helen and Ritter Shumway Fdn 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.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 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.