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Kass Family Foundation Inc Stephen Kass-Carterledyard & Milburn
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Kass Family Foundation Inc Stephen Kass-Carterledyard & Milburn’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The New York Community Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Kass Family Foundation Inc Stephen Kass-Carterledyard & Milburn named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAND FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $4,000 |
| ECUMENICAL EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY OF WP | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WHITE PLAINS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| FIRST PEOPLES FUND | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| TABU ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| FOR THE LOVE OF ERIKA | $500 |
| CHEETAH CONSERVATION | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 50% of Kass Family Foundation Inc Stephen Kass-Carterledyard & Milburn’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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Neutral Zone3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +122%- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +15%
- FPFIRST PEOPLES FUND3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +296%
Funded once
- BDBanco de Alimentos de Puerto Ricoone grant, 2017 · $5k
- YSYOUTH SPEAKS INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -39%
- AAANN ARBOR TEEN CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Cultural vistas leverages the power of international exchange to connect lives, enhance global skills, and drive positive change.
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Our mission is to promote and protect affordable homeownership in new york so that middle- and working-class families are able to build strong, thriving communities.
Cfo enriches the lives of nyc children in foster care through the transformative power of the arts. but nurturing their talents and interests, we empower children to envision brighter futures and pursue their full potential.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Cultural Power and the most unlike its peers is Island Autism Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds Neutral Zone ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE COMPLEX ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VETERANS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORY UNERASED INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Kass Family Foundation Inc Stephen Kass-Carterledyard & Milburn 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.
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Foster Care Review Inc — 33% of income from government
- History Unerased Inc — 3% 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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