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Romenesa 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 $10k23 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $30,250 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL NYC | $29,450 |
| THE FRANKLIN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| THE RETREAT | $10,000 |
| PART OF THE SOLUTION | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK ZEN CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| PARRISH ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PECONIC LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTH SEA MARITIME CENTER FOR DONATOIN | $6,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $5,500 |
| NY RESTORATION PROJECT | $5,000 |
| GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM - PATRONS CIRCLE FUND | $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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- GBGILLEN BREWER SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $203k · revenue +2%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +58%
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- AAASPEN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -62%
- AGATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -68%
- TATHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · 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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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 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 GILLEN BREWER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds The Franklin Academy ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds 1898 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY SUPPORT 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Corner Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Romenesa 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.
- 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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