· Private foundation
The Ad Philanthropic Fund Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORRISTOWN BEARD SCHOOL | $55,500 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $50,000 |
| USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SIERRA COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| INDEPENDENT GROUP HOME LIVING | $20,000 |
| THE MAPLEWOOD FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT | $15,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| RENT PARTY PANTRY INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN OF ADDICTION | $9,000 |
| CAMP PA QUA TUCK | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those 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.
47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +44%- MSMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $156k · revenue +18%
- HJHER JUSTICE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $129k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue -31%
- TFTHE FEDERATION OF PROTESTANT WELFAREone grant, 2018 · $30k
- ANAHRC NEW YORK CITY FNDone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
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…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 79 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT GROUP HOME LIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds USA Swimming Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Rent Party Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLEWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MORICHES ROTARY HEALTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds National Association For Children Of Alcoholics ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey
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 The Ad Philanthropic Fund 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.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Morristown-Beard School — 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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