· Private foundation
Sheldon and Audrey Katz Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $720k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| GREEN FORESTS WORK | $100,000 |
| FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $95,000 |
| POPULATION CONNECTION | $95,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $90,000 |
| HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM | $90,000 |
| BEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC | $50,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $40,000 |
| THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $35,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MARYLAND BIODIVERSITY PROJECT | $20,000 |
| THE YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +53%- GFGREEN FORESTS WORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $437k · revenue +513%
- FZFRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC6× · 2019–2024 · $420k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- CACAF AMERICAN DONOR FUNDone grant, 2023 · $472k
- ANAUDBON NATURALIST SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $40k
- GUGEORGTOWN UNIVERSITY PARKINSON'S FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.
A non-profit established in 1998, the cultural landscape foundation (tclf) connects people to places. tclf educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Potomac Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Pieces to Masterpieces. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 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.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN FORESTS WORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOKSIDE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND BIODIVERSITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) ↗
- Who funds LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Sheldon and Audrey Katz Foundation 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.
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.