· Private foundation
Sarah I Schieffelin Residuary Trust#
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $441k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $74,936 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $74,936 |
| ST THOMAS CHURCH | $74,936 |
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $74,936 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $23,000 |
| CALVARY HOSPITAL | $22,500 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $20,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER | $20,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
57 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION5× · 2021–2025 · $417k · revenue +37%
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations5× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +72%
- CHCALVARY HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- SCST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $12k
- ACAMSTERDAM CONTINUING CAREone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TFTHEATER FOR A NEW AUDIENCEone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
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).
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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 63 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 12% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 70 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 NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LENOX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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 Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Td Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Sarah I Schieffelin Residuary Trust# 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 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.