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Thaler Howell Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy for Animals | $35,000 |
| Ladder to the Moon Network | $35,000 |
| Royal River Conservation Trust | $34,000 |
| Natural Resources Council of Maine | $34,000 |
| Center for Biological Diversity | $34,000 |
| South River Watershed Alliance | $34,000 |
| EarthJustice | $34,000 |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $34,000 |
| Ithaca Health Alliance | $33,000 |
| Loaves Fishes of Tompkins County | $33,000 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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 +55% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k 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
- TPTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $313k · revenue +164%
- FLFINGER LAKES REUSE INC4× · 2018–2022 · $170k · revenue +113%
- LALoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $59k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $55k
- THThe History Center in Tompkins County Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +60%
- SFSUSTAINABLE FINGER LAKES INCone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue -13%
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 adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.
To acquire, protect, and manage open space in perpetuity for the benefit of wildlife and the community.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Arts At Ithaca Inc and the most unlike its peers is South River Watershed Alliance. 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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 ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES REUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The History Center in Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds LADDER TO THE MOON NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds South River Watershed Alliance ↗
- Who funds ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Ithaca Public Education Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
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: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · John Edward Lovenheim and Barbara Pitlick Lovenheim Charitable Trust · Triad Foundation Inc · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · Norathco Foundation · Brooks Family Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Thaler Howell Foundation Inc 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.
- Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 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.
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