· Private foundation
Nelson B Delavan Found Part a Xxxxx9000
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k63 grants · $263k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LODI WHITTIER LIBRARY | $14,500 |
| SOUTH SENECA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,000 |
| SCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART GALLERY | $10,000 |
| HOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CAYUGA MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ST PETERS COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| SENECA MUSEUM OF WATERWAYS | $9,840 |
| WATERLOO LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $9,500 |
| COMPANY THEATRE INC | $9,000 |
| LODI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $7,500 |
| EDITH B FORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER | $7,500 |
| SENECA FALLS IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE | $7,500 |
| GENEVA MUSIC FESTIVAL | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 11 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- WHWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2018–2022 · $342k · revenue +36%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +118%
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- NPNARAL PROCHOICE AMERICA TREASURERSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RFRomulus Fnd for Educational Opportunitieone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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.
The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The everson museum of art of syracuse and onondaga county is a not-for-profit organization located in syracuse, new york. its stated purpose is to conduct cultural, charitable, and educational activities. the museum's support comes…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smith Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Celebrate Commemorate Memorial Day. 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 37 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 129 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 WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY ↗
- Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMANSBURG CONSERVATORY OF FINE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LODI WHITTIER LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA READS INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA FALLS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LIGHT OPERA ↗
- Who funds MACEDON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY ↗
- Who funds Interlaken Public Library ↗
- Who funds Clyde Savannah Public Library ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN SERVICE YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMPANY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Geneva Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DACOR BACON HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wayne County Council for the Arts ↗
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: Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Bonafiglia Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Wyckoff Family Foundation Inc · Finger Lakes Library System · The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community 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 Nelson B Delavan Found Part a Xxxxx9000 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.
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% 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.