· Private foundation
Realty Gift Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of Realty Gift Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $604k
- $250k+11 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FUND | $4,626,493 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,458,752 |
| GREATER HORIZONS | $1,240,238 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC | $1,141,140 |
| FRIENDS OF OASIS | $800,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $760,590 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $688,660 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $448,387 |
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC - CLINE CHARITABLE FUND | $373,393 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM | $347,436 |
| SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $262,930 |
| HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATON | $247,822 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $193,339 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION | $111,964 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $50,939 |
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 (FY23–23, $484k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.5M · revenue -54%
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY3× · 2020–2023 · $158k · revenue +4%- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA2× · 2023–2024 · $78k
Funded once
- BHBERKELEY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- NBNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +303%
- RERECOVERY EMPOWERMENT NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $484k · revenue +17%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lake County Historical Society. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 56 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OASIS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LIFE LINK TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ALABAMA FUNDRAISERS AGAINST CHILDHOOD DISEASES GROUP ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
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: Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Silicon Valley Community 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 Realty Gift Fund 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.
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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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