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Posel Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE | $72,000 |
| SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY | $27,500 |
| READER TO READER | $20,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $15,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE USA | $15,000 |
| WCCN | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION | $10,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $10,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES | $10,000 |
| SOIL | $10,000 |
| FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 80 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- NYNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES4× · 2019–2022 · $370k · revenue +118%
- NVNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +27%
- NONetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children6× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- YBYoga Behind Barsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +53%
- UNUNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCYone grant, 2018 · $30k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · 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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
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.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
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…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ithaca Welcomes Refugees 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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
118 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. 118 of the 146 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds READER TO READER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC INTEGRATED LIVELIHOODS C/O MELANIE STEVENSON ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds PLENTY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds Yoga Behind Bars ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds QUIXOTE CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE 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: Whatcom Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Riverstyx Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Robin Hood 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 Posel 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Reader to Reader Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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