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Northlands 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NE HISTORICAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $79,575 |
| CLASSIC LYRIC ARTS | $65,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA VOICE | $52,500 |
| SCENIC HUDSON | $50,000 |
| CONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE | $28,325 |
| HUDSON HALL | $12,500 |
| METROPOLITIAN OPERA | $12,500 |
| FRIENDS OF PARADIS DES INDIENS INC | $10,000 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| CLARK ART INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| MASTER DRAWINGS ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL REGION CLASSICAL | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $3,125 |
| ST PETER CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those 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 +58% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- SHScenic Hudson Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +127%
- FOFRIENDS OF PARADIS DES INDIENS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +2% · 35% of their budget
- CLCLASSIC LYRIC ARTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $94k · revenue +143%
Funded once
FRACTURED ATLAS INCone grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +5%- KPKWELLER PREP FIRST IN FAMILY FUND2× · 2019–2020 · $21k
- SSST STEPHEN'S SCHOOLone 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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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 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 mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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)
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,…
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 94 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 Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PARADIS DES INDIENS INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSIC LYRIC ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VOICE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION CLASSICAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds MASTER DRAWINGS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds JONAH BOKAER ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SS COLUMBIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE COOPERAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BAILEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Felton Institute ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds Columbia County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PS 21 INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL MOVEMENTS FOR CHANGE 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 Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Hrbt Foundation · Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Peggy N & Roger G Gerry Charitable · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust
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 Northlands 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.
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Heartly House Inc — 33% 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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