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Screen Door Philanthropies

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.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$73kHuman Services$71kEnvironment$63kCrime & Legal$51kHealth$20kReligion$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $92k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $199k
$9,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS$20,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$20,000
WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST$17,000
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC$17,000
WEST SIDE CENTER COMMUNITY LIFE$16,000
PRES & FELLOS MIDDLEBURY COLL$15,000
COLLEGE VISIONS$14,000
HOPES DOOR INC$13,000
FAMILY LEGAL CARE$12,500
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL$12,000
HUDSON LINK HIGHER ED PRISON$11,000
MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY$11,000
HUDSON HIGHLANDS LAND TRUST INC$10,000
CLIENTEARTH USA INC$10,000
GLSEN INC$9,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $13k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $13k → 17%NEIGHBORS LINK: $8k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $5k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$495k · 19 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$495k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+12%

Still filing today

84%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IJ
    IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $41k · revenue +86%
  • COLLEGE VISIONS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +16%
  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TE
    TRANGENDER EMERGENCY FUND MA
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Long Island University

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.

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5
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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6
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
11
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST SIDE CENTER COMMUNITY LIFE: $41,000 · OtherWEST SIDE CENTER COMMUNITY LIFEPRES & FELLOS MIDDLEBURY COLL: $30,000 · OtherPRES & FELLOS MIDDLEBURY COLLHUDSON LINK HIGHER ED PRISON: $29,000 · OtherHUDSON LINK HIGHER ED PRISONHOPES DOOR INC: $28,500 · OtherHOPES DOOR INCPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 · OtherPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INCTRANGENDER EMERGENCY FUND MA: $9,000 · OtherGLSEN INC: $27,500 · OtherGLSEN INCCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC: $22,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER …EMERGENCY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP: $9,500 · Other+2 more: $6,000 · OtherCOLLEGE VISIONS: $35,750 · EducationCOLLEGE VISIONSHARLEM ACADEMY: $26,500 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYGRACE ACADEMY: $17,000 · EducationGRACE ACADEMYCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION: $5,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationWestchester Land Trust Inc: $41,750 · EnvironmentWestchester Land Trus…MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $26,500 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK C…ATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY LTD: $15,000 · EnvironmentATLANTIC MARINE CONSE…Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentHudson Highlands Land…CLIENTEARTH USA INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCLIENTEARTH USA INCLONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $32,000 · HealthMIDDLESEX…MADISON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC DBA MADISON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES: $17,500 · HealthMADISON A…IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $40,500 · Crime & LegalFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $14,500 · Human ServicesNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBRATTLE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$217,500Education$112,250Environment$111,250Health$49,500Crime & Legal$40,500Human Services$39,500Arts & Culture$29,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $41,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $40,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE VISIONS: $35,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPES DOOR INC: $28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGLSEN INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC DBA MADISON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $17,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetATLANTIC MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY LTD: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEMERGENCY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP: $9,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Screen Door Philanthropies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Screen Door Philanthropies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Screen Door Philanthropies?

Find your warmest path to Screen Door Philanthropies through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home