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May Foundation Trust
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 |
|---|---|
| CAST | $1,775 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $1,775 |
| LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSN | $1,775 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $1,775 |
| KIDS FOR PEACE | $1,775 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $1,775 |
| UNITED WE DREAM | $1,775 |
| PECONIC LAND TRUST | $1,775 |
| UNBOUND | $1,775 |
| HOVING HOME | $1,775 |
| KENNEDY CHILDREN CENTER | $1,775 |
| FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH | $1,775 |
| DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,775 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $1,775 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,775 |
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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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 +12% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- NYNEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +3%
BEREA COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +3%- FPFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CFCOLLECTIVE FOOD WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +226%
- BVBETHANY VILLAGE AT CAMP MCDOWELLone grant, 2020 · $2k
- WCWOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOIone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -38%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Ukraine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Running Start. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 88 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 NEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds Good Radio Shows Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON SLOOP CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S INN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEALING CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds The Children's Law Center ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds POWER SHIFT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PACT AN ADOPTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SPRING LAKE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Kids for Peace ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Borealis Philanthropy · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 May Foundation Trust 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.
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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