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Mariposa Foundation Inc

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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$8.7MArts & Culture$6.2MEducation$5.0MCivil Rights$3.6MHealth$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.5MFood & Nutrition$2.4MCrime & Legal$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY$600,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$500,000
PROPUBLICA$500,000
NEO PHILANTHROPHY$250,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$250,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUN$250,000
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$200,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$200,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$150,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$150,000
HOPEWELL FUND$150,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$130,000
CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION$100,000
CENTER FOR HUMANE TECHNOLOGY$100,000
CITY HARVEST$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BED STUY CAMPAIGN AGANIST HUNGER: $10k → 20%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 10%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $10k → 20%THE RIVER FUND: $10k → 13%GREEN CITY FORCE: $75k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $75k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $75k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $75k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $75k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $75k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $75k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $40k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
OR
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$38M · 61 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
38

Total granted

$38M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+41%

Still filing today

77%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +41%
  • PRO PUBLICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +48%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +14%
  • EG
    ECHOING GREEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +107%
  • HH
    HERMITAGE HEART INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

10
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Queens Library Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr11%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr11%47%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
14%
15,117/111,431

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.

04the grantee network

80 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 109 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
61/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,950,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENS…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,750,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FU…OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $830,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY+2 more — $270,000 · EnvironmentREAD TO LEAD INC — $2,025,000 · OtherREAD TO LEAD INCNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL — $1,650,000 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION — $1,400,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONUS FUNDS FOR UNICEF — $600,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,600,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $625,000 · OtherWildlife Conservation Society — $1,035,000 · OtherWildlife Conservation SocietyCITY HARVEST INC — $860,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC+58 more — $5,864,168 · Other+58 moreAmerican Museum of Natural History — $3,077,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum …PRO PUBLICA INC — $1,850,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO — $667,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CORPORATION …+10 more — $270,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $1,110,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York — $925,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $650,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION — $275,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $50,000 · Crime & LegalPURPOSE FOUNDATION — $535,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE — $500,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $375,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $375,000 · EducationCenter for Educational Innovation Inc — $200,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $190,000 · EducationTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $140,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $120,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INC — $100,000 · Education+1 more — $25,000 · EducationNEO Philanthropy Inc — $1,750,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $400,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $25,000 · Public BenefitFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $1,285,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY — $290,000 · Community ImprovementASCENDUS INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $125,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $65,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$8,800,000Other$16,659,168Arts & Culture$5,864,000Crime & Legal$3,010,000Education$2,560,000Public Benefit$2,175,000Community Improvement$1,965,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,950,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $3,077,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetREAD TO LEAD INC — $2,025,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $1,850,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,750,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $1,750,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,600,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $1,285,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $1,110,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $1,035,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMake the Road New York — $925,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $860,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $830,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO — $667,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $650,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $625,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC — $550,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $550,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPURPOSE FOUNDATION — $535,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $415,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $400,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $375,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $375,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL — $335,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $290,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION — $275,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCenter for Educational Innovation Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASCENDUS INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSD Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $140,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPATH — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology — $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History
  • Who funds READ TO LEAD INC
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Make the Road New York
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds GREEN CITY FORCE INC
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds PURPOSE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
  • Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
  • Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION
  • Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND
  • Who funds ASCENDUS INC
  • Who funds SD 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY21.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Vidda Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Pinkerton Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund 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 Mariposa 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Mariposa Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mariposa Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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