· Private foundation
Michael Singer Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE REEF INSTITUTE | $6,513 |
| COMMUNITY GREENING CORP | $2,000 |
| ART IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD | $2,000 |
| THE LANDMARK TRUST USA | $2,000 |
| WALKER WILDLIFE FILMS INC | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 15% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- HAHEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA INC3× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +397%
- BMBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +80%
- BFBound For College Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- MRMaria Regina RC Churchone grant, 2020 · $3k
- OLOne Love One Community Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TATHE ARMORY ART CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +44%
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.
Stone barns center is a nonprofit farm, education, and research center with a mission to catalyze an ecological food culture. since 2004, we have been driving innovation in sustainable farming practices and mindful food choices that…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
To bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
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…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.
Preservation of undeveloped land in the town of barnstable and nearby areas
The wright-locke farm conservancy builds broad community and seeks to model sustainable practices through active learning, organic agriculture, land stewardship, and an appreciation of our historic new england farm.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Council On the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 23 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 60 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 HEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds Bound For College Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LANDMARK TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVENUE CONCEPT INC ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Greening Corp ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Harvest International ↗
- Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Walker Wildlife Films Inc ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB DICK WEBBER CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
- Who funds WiseTribe US Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds Christians Reaching Out To Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Soil & Soul Inc ↗
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Periwinkle Foundation Inc · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Thomas Thompson Trust · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Michael Singer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Landmark Trust Usa Inc — 100% of income from government
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
- Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- Aids Project of Southern Vermont — 55% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Civil Justice Inc — 23% of income from government
- Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
- Old School Enrichment Council Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Greening Corp — 5% of income from government
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.