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Nancy Sidewater 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.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$223kHealth$70kEducation$55kAnimals$42kFood & Nutrition$41kCivil Rights$25kPhilanthropy$20kCommunity Improvement$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,000
THE BALAM FOUNDATION$10,000
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY$10,000
THE TRINI FOUNDATION$10,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
FILM FORUM$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ONE LOVE COMMUNITY$5,000
GOOD WORKS EDUCATION FUND$5,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$5,000
FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE WELCOMING CENTER: $5k → 22%NYC KIDS PROJECT: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
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IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
MD
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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.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$342k · 13 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
22

Total granted

$342k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+22%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • FF
    FILM FORUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +62%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    4× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MA
    MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -43%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +20%

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.

1
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
2
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
3
The Conversationalist
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
6
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
7
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
9
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
10
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
11
Global Freedoms Inc

Develop culturally driven educational content that raises awareness about the human rights abuses in the middle east and amplify the brave woman-led freedom movements that resist injustice and inequality through everyday acts of civil…

International
12
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Loveland Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and AdoptionSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Public Library SupportCommunity Arts OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Government Accountability R…Education Equity Leadership
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%12%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%9%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,732

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.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ACTOR'S FUND — $20,000 · OtherTHE ACTOR'S FUNDTHE ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY — $20,000 · OtherTHE ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANYTHE ATLANTIC THEATRE — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherTHE FILM-MAKERS COOPERATIVE — $10,000 · OtherFDR FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherTHE WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM LTD — $10,000 · OtherWELCOME TO CHINATOWN — $10,000 · OtherMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $10,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+15 more — $65,000 · Other+15 moreWNET — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWNETFILM FORUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INCTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC THEATER COMPANYAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE — $7,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTRINI FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthTRINI FOUNDAT…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $10,000 · HealthPlanned Paren…DONORSCHOOSEORG — $33,154 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $36,000 · Food & NutritionONE LOVE COMMUNITY INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionThe Balam Foundation Inc — $40,000 · AnimalsWILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$205,000Arts & Culture$147,500Health$70,000Education$45,154Food & Nutrition$41,000Animals$40,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWNET — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFILM FORUM INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Balam Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $33,154 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRINI FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $30,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen for Afghan Women Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCivil Liberties Defense Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNYC KIDS PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nancy Sidewater 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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