· Private foundation
Lostand Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of LOSTAND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $286k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $222k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARRISON INSTITUTE | $1,011,774 |
| GARRISON INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL | $62,299 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| PROSOCIAL WORLD | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $31,000 |
| SCENIC HUDSON INC | $25,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HUDSON VALLEY HOSP | $25,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| VINCEREMOS RIDING CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| TIBET FUND | $20,000 |
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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($14M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($1.9M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($1.9M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
127 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 24 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- DCDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $650k · revenue +113%
- TBThe Bhutan Foundation5× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +141%
- TFTibet Fund Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- GIGARRISON INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $651k
- BCBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +43%
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 peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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 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…
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 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)
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for Public Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration Inc. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 228 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 THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Yesod 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Lanegate Foundation · The D J McManus Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Ford Foundation · Lostand Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Land Family Foundation · Putnam Arts Council · The Topfield 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 Lostand 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.
- Presencing Institute Inc — 28% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% 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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