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Square Table 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LENAPE CENTER | $20,000 |
| READING AND WRITING VENTURES | $20,000 |
| BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATION | $10,000 |
| CHASE EMERSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| MAYAN EDUCATION AND SUPPORT ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| NORTH EAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| DETENTION WATCH NETWORK | $5,000 |
| JUSTICE IN MOTION | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $5,000 |
| TAILS OF TWO CITIES SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| TSECHEN KUNCHAB LING | $5,000 |
| RACHELS TABLE OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $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 (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- NGNOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $126k · revenue +4% · 34% of their budget
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $61k · revenue +120%- CACENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +25%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +23%- SJST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $7k
- SFSafe Futures Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +28%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 52 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 NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LENAPE CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWOMENWORK ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GUATEMALA HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ELEPHANT HAVENS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Vida Joven Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Detention Watch Network ↗
- Who funds SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds NIJC NFP ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S TABLE OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH BOTANICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
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: Russell Colgate Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Square Table 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.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Rachel's Table of Western Massachusetts 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.
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