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Sarah Tod Fund Dtd 121454
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $251k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MAURICE SENDAK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HARVARD SQUARE | $25,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| STREET SQUASH | $10,000 |
| KEELER TAVERN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PARK AVENUE ARMORY | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| IMPERIAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY | $10,000 |
| THREE LAKES COUNCIL | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 20% 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.
50 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- WCWellesley College6× · 2018–2025 · $390k · revenue +81%
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $218k · revenue +15%
- TATHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC6× · 2018–2023 · $140k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- TRTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WASHINGTON STATUE INCone grant, 2024 · $20k
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +42%
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 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 the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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).
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 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."
Enhance the preservation, renovation & renewal of buildings of historical significance
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
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 economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Harvard Square Inc. 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 43 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 76 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 Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Harvard Square Inc ↗
- Who funds KEELER TAVERN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WASHINGTON STATUE INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American School in London Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
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: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004 · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Newcomb-Hargraves Foundation · The Goldstone Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Synchrony Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ibm International 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 Sarah Tod Fund Dtd 121454 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.
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ridgefield Historical Society Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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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