· Private foundation
Liana Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| POETS & WRITERS | $35,000 |
| UTAH FILM CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FDN OF JACKSON HOLE | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS | $10,000 |
| GRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSN | $10,000 |
| RI COMMUNTIY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGES | $10,000 |
| LIFE CAMP | $5,000 |
| NEW HAVEN READS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| GRAYWOLF PRESS | $5,000 |
| MORY'S PRESERVATION INC | $5,000 |
| HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS SOCIETY | $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 (FY18–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- TATHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +91%
- GPGRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INC8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +39%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- TWTHE WHEELER SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
- BPBEING PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MCMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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 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,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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 Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Our fundamental mission is to bring scholarly ideas to the world. we publish books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the human conversation. we embrace the highest standards in our…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 The Academy of American Poets Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 56 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 WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds POETS AND WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAVANKERRY PRESS LTD ↗
- Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MORY'S PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECTION & EDUCATION RE ANIMALS CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Taos Art Museum ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Poetry Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc · Hawthornden Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Liana 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.
- Cavankerry Press Ltd — 24% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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