· Private foundation
Putnam Family 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 $10k20 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOUBLE H RANCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $15,000 |
| NISKAYUNA REFORMED CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SEAT CENTER | $15,000 |
| LIHUE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| JOSHUA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FOR ALL SEASONS | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| KOINONIA PRIMARY CARE | $10,000 |
| TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER | $10,000 |
| TRINITY CATHEDRAL | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $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 (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +88% since the first grant, against -45% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- DHDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +21%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +23%
- KPKOINONIA PRIMARY CARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- MSMAUI STRONG FUNDone grant, 2023 · $30k
- CLCANAJOHARIE LIBRARY & ART GALLERYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -45%
- RSREGIONAL SYNOD OF ALBANYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To offer an academically challenging and personally enriching education program in a safe, nurturing environment where ethical values and good citizenship are emphasized.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
The mission of morris college is to produce graduates who can pursue useful and productive careers and in so doing enhance their own lives and the society in which they take their places. that mission is being successfully implemented by…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
To explore the world through authentic experiences, empowering students to engage deeply and be ready for what is next.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Enterprise and Training Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arkell Hall Foundation 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 63 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 DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KOINONIA PRIMARY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOHARIE CHAPTER NSDAR ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds ARKELL HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mission Experience ↗
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: Dock Street Foundation · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The May Foundation of Maryland · Ryan-Richtsmeier Charitable Foundation Inc · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Wright Family Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Putnam Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 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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