· Private foundation
Philip M Waterman Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY PARKS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF WESTCHESTER | $9,780 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| METRO MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART | $600 |
| RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $150 |
| SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS | $100 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- CPCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +112%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE4× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +111%- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TETEMPLE EMORY EL STREICKERone grant, 2024 · $4k
- SLST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +45%
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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 founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…
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…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frick Collection and the most unlike its peers is Marsh Sanctuary 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 60 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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 CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE TOWN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD HILLS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ROSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds 1898 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marsh Sanctuary 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Philip M Waterman Foundation Inc 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.
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.