· Private foundation
International Paper Company Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k398 grants · $1.4M
- $10k–50k60 grants · $899k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $842k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL | $250,000 |
| BONTERRA LLC | $128,896 |
| EARTH'S BIRTHDAY PROJECT | $102,500 |
| EARTH'S BIRTHDAY PROJECT | $102,500 |
| SIGNET | $58,472 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC | $50,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER INC DBA GOOD SHEPHERD | $50,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $50,000 |
| THE MORTON ARBORETUM | $50,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES | $50,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| HOYT ARBORETUM FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of International Paper Company Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
646 repeat relationships — 328 still active in FY2024, 318 since wound down; 108 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $626k 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
- RIREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +87%
- TETHE EARTHS BIRTHDAY PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +68% · 50% of their budget
- MLMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +192%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +2%- CFCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +185%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2022 · $49k
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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
Create and maintain a food procurement and distribution network that provides nurishing food by maximizing relationships with major food distributors and producers. galveston county food bank effectively distributes nutritious food to…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
To lead a network of partners and unite the community to eliminate hunger by feeding, nourishing, and empowering those we serve.
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
Second harvest food bank of east tennessee is dedicated to compassionately feeding east tennesseans experiencing hunger & engaging the community in the fight to eliminate hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southampton County Historical Society. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
845 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. 845 of the 1,256 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 READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE EARTHS BIRTHDAY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds Hoyt Arboretum Friends Foundation ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds Family Reach Alliance ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds THE BEN JOHNSON EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds CAMPTI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Bear Family Foundation Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · United Way of the Coastal Empire · United Way of West Florida Inc · The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Mb Meyer Charitable Tr · Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area Inc · The Eshelman 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 International Paper Company 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.
- Mckenzie Watershed Alliance — 100% of income from government
- Arc of Lane County — 79% of income from government
- Lift Community Action Agency Inc — 43% of income from government
- Grow Portland — 36% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Forests Today and Forever — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Manna Food Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House 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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