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Screen Door Philanthropies
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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| PRES & FELLOS MIDDLEBURY COLL | $15,000 |
| WEST SIDE CENTER COMMUNITY LIFE | $15,000 |
| IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS | $12,500 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| COLLEGE VISIONS | $12,500 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER | $12,500 |
| FAMILY LEGAL CARE | $12,500 |
| MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,500 |
| MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| HUDSON LINK HIGHER ED PRISON | $9,000 |
| GLSEN INC | $9,000 |
| HOPES DOOR INC | $8,000 |
| GRACE ACADEMY | $6,000 |
| ATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $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 (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +12% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
COLLEGE VISIONS2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +16%- IJIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +86%
- MHMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TETRANGENDER EMERGENCY FUND MAone grant, 2023 · $9k
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Collegeone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
- LILONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -40%
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.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Securing justice for, protecting the rights of and rendering legal assistance and representation to indigent residents and non-residents of westchester county.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
The legal aid society of northeastern new york fights for fairness, dignity, and justice for those living in poverty and for a society which is inclusive and equitable for all. we transform lives, build community and empower people by…
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
To provide free high quality legal services to maine residents aged sixty & over, who qualify for legal services under the older americans act, 42 usca sec. 3001 et seq, as amended.
Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middlesex Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Glsen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MADISON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC DBA MADISON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds POUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP ↗
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 New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Screen Door Philanthropies 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 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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