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Kvistad 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| D&H CANAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MAVERICK CONCERTS INC | $4,906 |
| UPACBARDAVON | $2,500 |
| UPSTATE FILMS | $2,500 |
| WALKWAY OVER THE HUDSON | $2,500 |
| WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE | $2,000 |
| MATAGIRI SRI AUROBINDO CENTER | $1,750 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NORTHERN DUTCHESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| OPUS 40 | $1,000 |
| ROSENDALE THEATRE COLLECTIVE | $1,000 |
| JOHN CAGE TRUST | $800 |
| WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL | $550 |
| FRIENDS OF BRUCE PAUL | $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 (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
135 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 122 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- FOFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC5× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +46%
- MCMAVERICK CONCERTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
- DCD&H CANAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
Oberlin Collegegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +26%- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
Caramoor's mission is to enrich the lives of audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentor young professional musicians, and engage children through interactive educational experiences that…
Artswestchester's mission is to create an equitable, inclusive, vibrant and sustainable westchester county in which the arts are integral to and integrated into every facet of life.
Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
The Organization s mission is the development and presentation of new art exhibits and programs.
To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts
The mission of the catskill symphony orchestra is to entertain, educate, and inspire audiences of all ages by presenting a professional ensemble of the highest artistic quality performing the full range of symphonic literature. the…
To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.
The organization strives to challenge entertain and nourish its audience through the development and production of new and contemporary musicals and plays. this relationship engages the community as audience members and participants in…
Arts services inc. (asi) empowers the region's artists and arts organizations with connections to funding, learning opportunities, and community access to the arts. we are a resource hub for the western new york arts and cultural sector.
Artpark & company fosters a transformative world of artistic engagement that explores the human experience, cultivates creativity, and encourages curiosity. our work is informed by a long tradition of discovery, an expectation of artistic…
Productions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts Mid-Hudson Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wal-Mart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 221 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds D&H CANAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD ↗
- Who funds Shapeshifter Plus Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
- Who funds ULSTER COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds VOICE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMALKIND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF KINGSTON ↗
- Who funds SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESERVOIR FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OPUS 40 INC ↗
- Who funds FELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSENDALE THEATRE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIND OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Solar Cookers International ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Center for Children ↗
- Who funds Shandaken Theatrical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Land Conservancy 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: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Novo Foundation · Arts Mid-Hudson Inc · The Jedra Charitable Foundation Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Villchur Foundation · David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund Inc · Wood Dock Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family 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 Kvistad 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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