· Private foundation
If Hummingbird Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIEND OF MUSIQUE & VIN AU CLOS VOUGEOT INC | $8,731 |
| R&S KAYNE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MSK | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| CORNELL HILLEL | $5,000 |
| THE KAMEN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| HEAD OF THE CHARLES REGATTA INC | $3,000 |
| HEADSTRONG | $3,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $2,500 |
| CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $2,350 |
| WATER SPORTS CENTER | $1,780 |
| SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
142 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 122 since wound down; 19 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC5× · 2017–2021 · $137k · revenue +21%
- THThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +102%
- MYMV YOUTH INC5× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WCWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $200k
- NYNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -32%
- WOWords of War Benefitone grant, 2017 · $33k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
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…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable 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 32 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
203 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. 203 of the 363 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KAMEN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE ENGINE INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN THE ARMED FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Gund Geoffrey Fdn · South Mountain Company Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · American Express 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 If Hummingbird Foundation Inc 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.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Sassafras Earth Education Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 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.