· Private foundation
Open Society Institute
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k261 grants · $384k
- $10k–50k111 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k127 grants · $12M
- $250k+60 grants · $132M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY | $38,025,318 |
| CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY | $31,983,066 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $12,500,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $5,000,000 |
| MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND | $5,000,000 |
| THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $2,825,471 |
| RESET TECH | $2,000,000 |
| ASPIRATION | $2,000,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $1,500,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC | $1,500,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $1,350,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ASSOCIATES | $1,250,000 |
| ACCESS NOW | $1,200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
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 US giving — 79% of grant dollars ($915M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($236M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $11.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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
Beyond the US — 21% of all-years giving ($236M)
113 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +16% for the ones you funded once.
1140 repeat relationships — 120 still active in FY2024, 1020 since wound down; 189 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M 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
- TCTHE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $323M · revenue +158% · 84% of their budget
BARD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $211M · revenue +256%- MDMEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $19M · revenue +62% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15M · revenue +32% · 33% of their budget
- SPSWISS PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- CFCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2.1M · revenue +50%
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shared Interest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reformed Church of Los Angeles. 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 29 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
412 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. 412 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 THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THINKING INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BUDGET PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Aspiration Aspirationtechorg ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ACCESS NOW ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL 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: Foundation to Promote Open Society · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · National Endowment for Democracy · The Rockefeller Foundation · Lily Auchincloss 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 Open Society Institute 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.
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Code for Science & Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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