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Pinkerton Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k68 grants · $206k
- $10k–50k91 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k258 grants · $26M
- $250k+28 grants · $9.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Services | $850,000 |
| Center for New York City Affairs at The New School | $600,000 |
| Good Shepherd Services | $500,000 |
| Community Connections for Youth Inc | $500,000 |
| Tomorrow's Leaders NYC Inc | $500,000 |
| Madison Square Boys & Girls Club Foundation Inc | $425,000 |
| Friends of the Children New York | $400,000 |
| The Door - A Center of Alternatives Inc | $350,000 |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation Inc | $340,000 |
| American Museum of Natural History | $330,000 |
| Workforce Professionals Training Institute | $330,000 |
| Ramapo for Children | $325,000 |
| The Alex House Project | $325,000 |
| Exodus Transitional Community | $300,000 |
| Futures and Options Inc | $295,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $24.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +29% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
469 repeat relationships — 313 still active in FY2023, 156 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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
GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES4× · 2020–2023 · $5.8M · revenue +5%- ESEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +7%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK4× · 2020–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +31% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- JPJustice Policy Instituteone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -50%
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +34%- SFSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +125%
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 graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
(see schedule o)
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
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…
Arete operates afterschool and summer programs in new york city public schools
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Aider Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
562 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. 562 of the 684 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 GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Tomorrows Leaders NYC ↗
- Who funds JOBSFIRSTNYC ↗
- Who funds FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
- Who funds Irondale Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds EXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Alliance of Families for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Alex House Project Inc ↗
- Who funds PARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EXALT YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION 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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Altman Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · United Way of New York City
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 Pinkerton 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.
- Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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