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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.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$264kRecreation & Sports$263kAnimals$175kArts & Culture$172kHuman Services$73kEnvironment$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $300k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$45,000
THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL$35,000
SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE (BUILD BOLD CAMPAIGN)$35,000
BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION$30,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$30,000
NEW ENGLAND SAILING & SCIENCE FOUNDATION$20,000
FOUR WINDS INC - CAMP FOR WINDS WESTWARD$20,000
ST GEORGE SCHOOL - TF SCHOLARSHIP$20,000
INNISFREE FOUNDATION$20,000
LAKESIDE SCHOOL$15,000
GROTON SCHOOL TF SCHOLARSHIP$10,000
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED NYC$10,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
ST THOMAS SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%JACKSON HOLE FOOD AND WINE: $10k → 5%JACKSON HOLE FOOD AND WINE: $5k → 5%JACKSON HOLE FOOD AND WINE: $3k → 5%JACKSON HOLE FOOD AND WINE: $3k → 5%JACKSON HOLE FOOD AND WINE: $3k → 5%JACKSON HOLE FOOD AND WINE: $2k → 5%CANCER PATHWAYS: $4k → 9%MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 9%MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 9%MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 9%MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 9%MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 9%MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 9%MILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
WY
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 62 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
7

Total granted

$2.3M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

52%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IM
    INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $248k · revenue +83%
  • TO
    THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +107%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • KC
    KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +30%
  • SA
    SBF ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • CP
    Cancer Pathwaysgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +37%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
2
The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
4
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
6
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
8
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
Longneck Manor Conservation Foundation

To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes

Animals
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Community Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $180,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALINNISFREE FOUNDATION INC: $112,500 · OtherINNISFREE FOUNDATION INCST GEORGE SCHOOL - TF SCHOLARSHIP: $96,000 · OtherST GEORGE SCHOOL - TF SCHOLARSHIPST GEORGE SCHOOL - HAMBLET CAMPUS CENTER: $76,000 · OtherST GEORGE SCHOOL - HAMBLET CAMPUS CENTERDUCKS UNLIMITED NYC: $70,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED NYCFOUR WINDS INC - CAMP FOR WINDS WESTWARD: $67,500 · OtherFOUR WINDS INC - CAMP FOR WINDS WESTWARDGROTON SCHOOL TF SCHOLARSHIP: $62,500 · OtherST THOMAS SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND: $52,500 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED SEATTLE: $49,500 · Other+29 more: $433,500 · Other+29 moreINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $247,500 · EducationINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INCTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL: $210,000 · EducationTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOLLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $70,000 · EducationLAKESIDE SCHOOLTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $47,500 · EducationTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & …UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $29,000 · Education+4 more: $18,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATIO: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $31,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $17,750 · Arts & Culture101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $13,750 · Arts & CultureBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $8,000 · Arts & CultureALL SAINTS NATIONAL LANDMARK TRUST INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMILLERTON COMMUNITY CINEMA ARTS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureLONG ISLAND WILDFOWL HERITAGE GROUP LTD: $55,000 · AnimalsWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $44,500 · AnimalsSBF ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $27,000 · EnvironmentDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $23,000 · EnvironmentCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentTOWNSCAPE OF MILLERTON AND NORTHEAST: $11,500 · EnvironmentWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE FOOD & WINE: $26,000 · Human ServicesOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $17,000 · Human ServicesMILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesCancer Pathways: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$1,200,000Education$622,000Recreation & Sports$131,000Arts & Culture$129,000Animals$104,500Environment$90,000Human Services$61,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $247,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL: $210,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetINNISFREE FOUNDATION INC: $112,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND WILDFOWL HERITAGE GROUP LTD: $55,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $47,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $44,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $27,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSON HOLE FOOD & WINE: $26,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $17,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILLBROOK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER: $14,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budget101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $13,750 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTOWNSCAPE OF MILLERTON AND NORTHEAST: $11,500 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $9,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALL SAINTS NATIONAL LANDMARK TRUST INC: $6,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCHATHAM HALL: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rumson Country Day School: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILLERTON COMMUNITY CINEMA ARTS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATIO: $6,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSBF ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFARM ON FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCancer Pathways: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Lucky Seven FoundationThe Warburg Pincus Fo…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Hathaway Family Found…The Pamela Howard Fam…Moccasin Lake Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…Community Foundations…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Johnson Robert K Foun…La Fondation Cuvelier
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home