· Private foundation
Royce Family Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $741k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $1,000,000 |
| HUNTER FOUNDATION | $834,127 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $538,400 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $495,000 |
| OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATER | $386,000 |
| KNICKERBOCKER MUSIC CENTER INC | $283,425 |
| AVON THEATER FILM CENTER INC | $276,423 |
| BRUCE MUSEUM | $225,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $130,000 |
| FILMMAKERS | $126,000 |
| COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY | $115,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH GREENWICH | $111,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $89,700 |
| ST BARNABAS EPSICOPAL CHURCH | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +41% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
122 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 28 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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
THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +73%- ATAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +533%
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BDBERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL AT YALEone grant, 2020 · $244k
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CONNECTICUTone grant, 2021 · $220k
- PPPINE POINT PARENTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $80k
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…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
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…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
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.
Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is My Chi & Me. 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 42 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 — 2% 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.
182 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. 182 of the 295 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE HUNTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KNICKERBOCKER MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mountain Top Library ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · Malkin Fund Inc · Bucknall Family Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Peter and Deborah Lamm Foundation R Bradford Malt Et Al Trustees · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Old Stones Foundation Inc · Lynch Family 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 Royce Family Fund 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.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Hill House Inc — 28% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Young Artists Philharmonic Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cityfest Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- The Stonington Free Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenwich Arts Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mystic & Noank Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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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