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Michael C Graham Foundation Inc

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$206k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Michael C Graham Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$10k33%
FY20233$38k67%
FY20222$35k50%
FY20214$72k50%
FY20206$49k33%
FY201913$64k38%
FY201810$47k30%
FY201710$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$256kEnvironment$30kEducation$21kInternational$16kArts & Culture$14kReligion$11kEmployment$6kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Angels Helping Animals Worldwide Inc$127,046723%
Humane World for Animals Inc$42,50050%
Angels Helping Animals$32,500257%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$25,00030%
Biodiversityworks Inc$25,00015%
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc$16,00020%
City Light Academy Inc$12,500110%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$11,25040%
Opera Fusion Inc$7,5002n/a
St Marks Church in the Bowery$7,0002n/a
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All grantees of Michael C Graham Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Angels Helping Animals Worldwide Inc$127,046723%
Humane World for Animals Inc$42,50050%
Angels Helping Animals$32,500257%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$25,00030%
Biodiversityworks Inc$25,00015%
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc$16,00020%
City Light Academy Inc$12,500110%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$11,25040%
Opera Fusion Inc$7,5002n/a
St Marks Church in the Bowery$7,0002n/a
Careers Support Solutions Inc$5,50020%
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$5,00010%
Mianus River Gorge Inc$5,00010%
Opportunity Inc of Palm Beach County$5,00010%
Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc$4,65030%
Horn of Africa Education Development Fund$3,75020%
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc$3,00010%
American Institute of Buddhist Studies Inc$2,5001n/a
Ready For Reading Inc$2,50011%
Friends of Mvyradio Inc$1,50010%
Rainbow Railroad USA Inc$1,20010%
St Josephs Indian School$1,0002n/a
Rbi Austin$75010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Michael C Graham Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAngels Helping Animals Worldwide Inc: $127,046 over 7y, 23% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAngels Helping Animals: $32,500 over 2y, 57% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBiodiversityworks Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Light Academy Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCareers Support Solutions Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMianus River Gorge Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOpportunity Inc of Palm Beach County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Museum Inc: $4,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHorn of Africa Education Development Fund: $3,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReady For Reading Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Mvyradio Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainbow Railroad USA Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRbi Austin: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Overbrook FoundationNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Overbrook Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Michael C Graham Foundation Inc

How much does Michael C Graham Foundation Inc give?
Michael C Graham Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Michael C Graham Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (70%), Environment (8%), Education (6%).
Who are Michael C Graham Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Angels Helping Animals Worldwide Inc ($127k), Humane World for Animals Inc ($43k), Angels Helping Animals ($33k).
Does Michael C Graham Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michael C Graham Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michael C Graham Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Overbrook Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Michael C Graham Foundation Inc based?
Michael C Graham Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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