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Middle Road Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k64 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $366k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
- $250k+1 grant · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $302,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMIT | $120,000 |
| FSU FOUNDATION INC | $65,000 |
| US FORUM FOR ISRAEL | $42,000 |
| 826LA | $40,000 |
| RISING EARTH HUMAN IMPACT ED INC | $35,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| THE INNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA | $30,000 |
| ELIAT CHARITIES INC | $27,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE ESTHER PROJECT | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $25,000 |
| OAKWOOD SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES | $12,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
79 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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
The Florida State University Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $220k · revenue +28%- TCTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +18%
- IPINNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC2× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- WMWilliam & Mary Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +90%
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- QBQUEENS BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Rights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spinehope Fka Spinal Deformity Foundation Inc. 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 135 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 The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD SCHOOL INC co Topel and Silver CPAs ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US Forum For Israel ↗
- Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds EILAT CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Ciesla Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds JCC ROCKLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERV ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE 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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts · Jewish Communal Fund · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · Findlay Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Elliott Family Foundation Inc · Steven Aresty Foundation · The Kurtz Family Foundation Inc · The Fairfield Foundation · Block Family 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 Middle Road 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Innocence Project of Florida Inc — 30% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Faine House Inc — 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.
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Find your warmest path to Middle Road Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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