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High Meadows Foundation
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
- $50k–250k4 grants · $403k
- $250k+8 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $998,260 |
| CLIMATE CENTRAL INC | $750,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $750,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $500,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| LET'S GROW KIDS | $300,000 |
| THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| WEST HARLEM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION | $102,500 |
| EVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PRIME COALITION INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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; $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
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +121%- CCCLIMATE CENTRAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +200%
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TYTHE YEARS PROJECT INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +7%
FOODCORPS INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +11%- TRTHE REAL FOOD GENERATIONone grant, 2021 · $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.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Educare Dc. 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 31 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) — 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 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.
32 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. 32 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HIGH MEADOWS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH MEADOWS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds West Harlem Environmental Action Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE YEARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds RETREAT FARM LTD ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE DC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT COMMUNICATIONINC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 High Meadows 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.
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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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