· Private foundation
Stephen and Carol Canter Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $15,000 |
| STREET SQUASH | $7,500 |
| SQUASH BRIDGE | $7,500 |
| BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ST JEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN | $5,000 |
| GLEN COVE BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| BUCKLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| ASSIST | $2,000 |
| PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- BLBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +27%
- SSSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +37%
- T5THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -8%
- WIWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TRTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +113%
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.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The robert louis stevenson school's mission is to provide a college preparatory program for bright adolescents who have not reached their potential in more traditional school settings. the program provides every student individually…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
Brooklyn Free School's (BFS's) mission is education for social justice. Always advocating for young people's voices to be heard, BFS engages students and staff in democratic decision-making and problem solving. We honor student choice and…
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
The school's mission is to prepare students of high academic achievement to succeed. the school provides student instruction and activity programs.
We develop adventurers. (see schedule o)creative collaborators and intellectual risk takers who are inspired to think critically and seek answers. we create passionate communicators actively connected to their community and the world. we…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Public Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Change for Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 26 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 BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
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 Stephen and Carol Canter Family 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.
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.