· Private foundation
Taylor 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $250,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $85,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNYSLVANIA | $4,500 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LEXINGTON BIKEWAYS | $500 |
| LEXINGTON OBSERVER | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 31% of Taylor Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +40%
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +917%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- THTHE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +205%
- TLTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +10%
- CMCROSSOVER MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +433%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEXINGTON BIKEWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Lexington Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RYE FREE READING ROOM ↗
- Who funds THE RYE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON OBSERVER INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Taylor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Taylor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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