· Private foundation
Pumpkin Foundation
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 $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| COLBURN SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| STORY CORP | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CEDILLE CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| NEW CANAAN BEAUTIFICATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| WMHT | $5,000 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $662k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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; $10k 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
- MMMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +139% · 40% of their budget
- BWBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +83%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC8× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +81%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue 0%
Cornell Universityone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +15%- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +163%
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 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…
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is It Takes Philly. 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 41 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 0% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 82 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 MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds New York Civil Rights Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BERSHIRE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE GROUPS & EDUCATION INC BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN BEAUTIFICATION LEAGUE 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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Velmans Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Carson Family Charitable Trust · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable 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 Pumpkin 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Transition House Inc — 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sonrisas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.