· Private foundation
Robert and Virginia Shiller 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 $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PBS FOUNDATION | $425,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION AMERICA | $35,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $35,000 |
| GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT | $25,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $20,000 |
| NHPBS | $10,000 |
| PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $5,000 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $5,000 |
| SENTIENT MEDIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +35% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 5 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +5%
- CCChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute6× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +35%
UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2017–2021 · $143k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- WVWORLD VISION CHILD SPONSORSHIPone grant, 2022 · $200k
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +32%
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Psychotherapy Action Network. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 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.
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 91 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 GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Psychotherapy Action Network ↗
- Who funds HAITI REHABILITATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Koch Ellis Fund · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Chubb 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 Robert and Virginia Shiller 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute — 44% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut Citizen Research Group 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.