· Private foundation
Stony Brook 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
- Under $10k11 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $5,000 |
| SARASOTA ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| WEDU | $1,500 |
| MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
| URBANITE THEATER | $1,000 |
| EDUCATION FDTN OF SARASOTA | $500 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $500 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE | $500 |
| ART CENTER OF SARASOTA | $500 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS' OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $250 |
| HUDSON VALLEY CLUBHOYSE | $250 |
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%. 52% of your 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 +59% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Cornell University6× · 2017–2022 · $71k · revenue +59%- OCORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +2%
- SBSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +32%
BARD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +245%
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The circus arts conservatory's mission is to engage and educate students using unique and innovative learning programs; to measuraly improve the quality of life for individuals in care communities; and to advance the extraordinary legacy…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Fine Arts of St Petersburg Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. 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 46 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.
26 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. 26 of the 51 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds URBANITE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOTOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CAT DEPOT ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasota · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Stony Brook 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cat Depot — 0% 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.