How much did MAY KAY HOUCK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of MAY KAY HOUCK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

countryrescue

2020

mountain

2021

mountain

2022

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2023

—

2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $41k
$10k–50k6 grants · $68k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST$17,500
CANANDAIGUA LAKE WATERSHED ASSOC$10,000
GENESEE VALLEY CONSERVANCY$10,000
ALBANY SYMPHONY$10,000
REACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC$10,000
LIGHTHOUSE VISION LOSS EDUCATION CT$10,000
HAYWOOD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$9,000
FOODLINK$8,000
COBBLESTONE FOUNDATIONS$6,000
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE MENDON PUBLIC LIBRAR$4,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY$2,000
VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION$2,000
MOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY$2,000
ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST$500

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$789k · 30 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +88% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$789k

$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%

+88%

Still filing today

60%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthInternationalAnimalsOther

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

FL
FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST
7× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +87%
GV
GENESEE VALLEY CONSERVANCY
7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +1948%
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REACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +126%

Funded once

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LOVE LEAD US INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k
AD
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUND
one grant, 2018 · $5k
TR
THE RESCUE INNgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +88%

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.

Woodstock Land Conservancy

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment

The Scenic Hudson Land Trust Inc

See Schedule O for The Scenic Hudson Land Trust's mission statement.

Environment

Lake George Land Conservancy Inc

Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George region.

Environment

Genesee Land Trust Inc

Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways.

Environment

Adirondack Railway Preservation

The organization's purpose is promoting, participating in and contributing to the rehabilitation, maintenance and operation of the adirondack corridor.

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The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment

New York Water Environment

To serve the best interests of the public by promoting sustainable clean water quality management through science, education, and training.

Environment

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural and aesthetic environment and resources of Westchester County, eastern Putnam County and its environs.

Environment

Adirondack North Country

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition

Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

The organization is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural, and environmental resources of (continued) dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area.

Environment

Gowanus Canal Conservancy Inc

Environmental stewardship, education and advocacy

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Adirondack Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Central Kitchen Inc. 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

10,118/120,736

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.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

20/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$456,000Environment$189,000Human Services$111,500International$33,000Food & Nutrition$33,000Health$17,000Animals$5,000Philanthropy$1,500

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.

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Ge Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organisation MAY KAY HOUCK 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COBBLESTONE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~628 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 851375002 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COBBLESTONE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 628 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to May Kay Houck Foundation?

Find your warmest path to May Kay Houck Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MAY KAY HOUCK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to May Kay Houck Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MAY KAY HOUCK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to May Kay Houck Foundation?

More from the funding graph