How much does Seven Turns Fund Inc give?

Seven Turns Fund Inc reported 24 grants totaling $1,944,556 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Seven Turns Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), International (26%), Arts & Culture (23%).

Who are Seven Turns Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Acumen Fund Inc ($4.9M), American Museum of Natural History ($4.3M), Vanderbilt University ($3.4M).

Does Seven Turns Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Seven Turns Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Seven Turns Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ford Foundation.

Where is Seven Turns Fund Inc based?

Seven Turns Fund Inc is based in NY.

Seven Turns Fund Inc

Seven Turns Fund Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Seven Turns Fund Inc

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.

$1.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$421k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.3MInternational$7.0MArts & Culture$6.4MHealth$2.8MEnvironment$1.2MFood & Nutrition$651kCrime & Legal$278kHuman Services$206kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $47k
$10k–50k9 grants · $194k
$50k–250k5 grants · $581k
$250k+3 grants · $1.1M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK	$421,178
ACUMEN FUND INC	$401,233
SEEDS OF PEACE	$301,174
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY	$201,009
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY	$103,778
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	$100,444
GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY	$100,223
VASSAR COLLEGE	$75,190
PERDEV PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER	$29,902
CITY HARVEST	$29,808
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY	$25,211
TRILOK FUSION ARTS INC	$25,000
CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION	$24,691
CAMP CHIPPEWA FOUNDATION	$20,204
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$14,840

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$24M · 40 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$24M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+13%

Still filing today

90%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther

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

AF
ACUMEN FUND INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +56%
Vanderbilt University
5× · 2019–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +57%
VC
VASSAR COLLEGE
6× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +19%

Funded once

Cornell University
one grant, 2024 · $290k · revenue +14%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -66%
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NYU
one grant, 2021 · $105k

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.

Manhattanville University

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

Education

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

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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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

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

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hard-Edged Hope Foundation. 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

82 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. 82 of the 110 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/82

Grantees still filing

48/82

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$8,044,832International$6,935,965Arts & Culture$4,788,982Other$5,319,344Environment$1,199,080Food & Nutrition$650,943Civil Rights$280,000

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

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The New York Community Trust · B & M Wright Foundation · Tides Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Fjc

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 Seven Turns Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seven Turns Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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