· Private foundation
New York Life Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k481 grants · $381k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k48 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+33 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND (YOURCAUSE LLC) | $7,163,862 |
| AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS | $1,200,000 |
| ELUNA | $1,035,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $750,000 |
| HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC | $750,000 |
| TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS | $700,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE | $675,000 |
| SESAME WORKSHOP | $535,000 |
| THE BELL FOUNDATION INC | $525,000 |
| AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE | $512,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $500,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS | $500,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $475,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S GRIEF | $410,000 |
| MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS | $400,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $15.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
504 repeat relationships — 131 still active in FY2024, 373 since wound down; 204 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History7× · 2018–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +20%
CITY YEAR INC7× · 2018–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +8%- AAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS7× · 2018–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +55%
Funded once
- YLYOURCAUSE LLCone grant, 2020 · $4.2M
- TATHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -32%
- BCBaylor College of Medicinegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $984k · revenue +49%
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 peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
To inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social and environmental curriculum.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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 28 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
686 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. 686 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds THE BELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds ELUNA FORMERLY THE MOYER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRENS GRIEF ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Congress of Parents & Teachers ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Eluna Formerly the Moyer Foundation · Expanded Schools Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · National Alliance for Childrens Grief · Altman Foundation · Education Freedom Alabama · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Charleys Kids Foundation · Girls Inc · Funeral Service Foundation Inc
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 New York Life 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.
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice 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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