· Private foundation
Margaret S Colyer Charitable Trust 000004
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION | $9,687 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND INC | $9,687 |
| DIVINE WORD MISSIONARIES | $9,687 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SPCA | $9,687 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $9,687 |
| ST JOHN OF GOD SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL | $9,687 |
| DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $9,687 |
| LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL | $9,687 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $9,687 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $9,687 |
| LEARNING ALLY | $9,687 |
| XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $9,687 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC | $9,687 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $556 |
| FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE ATONEMENT | $556 |
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, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Learning Ally Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +70%- SSSUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +52%
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +33%
Funded once
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 american foundation for the blind afb is to create equal opportunities and expand possibilities through advocacy thought leadership and strategic partnerships.
The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
To increase the independence, security, equality of opportunity, and quality of life for all blind and visually impaired people.
The mission of Braille Bibles International is to make a positive difference in the lives of visually impaired people by providing them access to God's Holy Word. Braille Bibles International provides Bibles in Braille, Large Print and…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The guide dog foundation for the blind, inc. provides guide and service dogs free of charge to provide increased independence, enhanced mobility, and companionship to people who are blind, visually impaired or have other disablities. the…
To positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. (See Schedule O)
To provide exceptional services that inspire people who are visually impaired to attain their goals.
Simulation based eye surgery training to create access to quality cataract surgery worldwide.
None
Integrating the blind into society
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Susquehanna Spca Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 29 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 Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
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.
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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 Margaret S Colyer Charitable Trust 000004 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.
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% 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.