· Private foundation
S S Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k20 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTWICK COLLEGE - DEPARTMENT OF COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT | $20,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE - SMFA | $5,000 |
| NORTH COUNTY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| C T R P INC | $4,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $2,000 |
| TECHNOSERVE | $2,000 |
| CITY HARVEST INC | $2,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| THE DOE FUND | $2,000 |
| OCEANA | $2,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $2,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- HCHartwick College3× · 2020–2022 · $99k · revenue +11%
- NCNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +159%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS- VET MEDICINEone grant, 2020 · $4k
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCHone grant, 2021 · $2k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +12%
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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To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
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Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 55 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.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 Hartwick College ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds HELP ME SEE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization S S 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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