· Private foundation
Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THANKSGIVING FOUNDATION BESSEMER TRUST COMPANY NA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE (BUILD BOLD CAMPAIGN) | $35,000 |
| THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| FOUR WINDS INC - CAMP FOR WINDS WESTWARD | $20,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND SAILING & SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST GEORGE SCHOOL - TF SCHOLARSHIP | $20,000 |
| INNISFREE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LAKESIDE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL TF SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED NYC | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $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 (FY19–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 41% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- IMINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $248k · revenue +83%
- TOTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +107%
- NENEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- KCKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +30%
- SASBF ANIMAL RESCUE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
- CPCancer Pathwaysgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +37%
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Innisfree 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 33 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNISFREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND WILDFOWL HERITAGE GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE FOOD & WINE ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds 101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES 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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Hathaway Family Foundation · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Johnson Robert K Foundation-Main · La Fondation Cuvelier
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 Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% 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.