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Koven Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GUNN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT | $25,000 |
| HARDING LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| TEWKSBURY LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| ST TIMOTHYS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $10,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| NEW JERSEY AUDOBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
62 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +63%
- NJNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION6× · 2018–2025 · $191k · revenue +51%
- HLHARDING LAND TRUST8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SMSCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $3k
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue +76%
- JSJONATHAN SLUSHER SCHOLARSHIP FDNone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
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 land conservancy of new jersey preserves land and water resources, conserves open space, and inspires and empowers individuals and communities to protect land and the environment.
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 mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
To promote and sponsor, with the cooperation of the palisades interstate park commission, a sanctuary on the top of the cliffs in the new jersey section of the palisades interstate park known as greenbrook sanctuary. the association's…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Gunn School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tewksbury First Aid & Rescue Squad. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. 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 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Center for Rural PreservationInc ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Flemington Area Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Leavens Foundation Inc · Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation · The Kean Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc
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 Koven 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.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% 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.