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Sheep Meadow Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $455,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $580,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $125,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Andover | $250,000 |
| Waterman's Community Center | $60,000 |
| Portland Art Museum | $55,000 |
| Miss Porter's School | $25,000 |
| North Haven Library | $25,000 |
| The Island Institute | $20,000 |
| Ecotrust | $20,000 |
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.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- MPMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $376k · revenue +24%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM4× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +14%
ECOTRUST4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +20%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +9%- CICICLAVIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +242%
- FOFriends of Micheltorena Schoolone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.
The mission of trinity academy of portland is to educate middle and high school students within a joyful christian school culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
The cambridge school of weston's mission is to provide a progressive education that emphasizes deep learning and meaningful relationships. our dynamic program inspires students to discover who they are and what their contribution is to…
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…
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Vashon Community Care Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 31 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 MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PILGRIM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN CONSERVATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYHEW ↗
- Who funds VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CICLAVIA INC ↗
- Who funds VASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Playwrights Project ↗
- Who funds VASHON ALLIED ARTS ↗
- Who funds VASHON COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Service ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.
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