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The Agnes Varis Trust
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Act for Lebanon | $467,500 |
| Opening Act Inc | $300,000 |
| Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley | $250,000 |
| WNETOrg | $250,000 |
| Richard Tucker Music Foundation | $225,000 |
| American University of Beirut | $200,000 |
| Arcenciel USA | $180,625 |
| Actors Company Theatre Inc | $175,000 |
| Research Foundation of CU | $150,000 |
| Trilogy an Opera Company | $125,000 |
| Hellenic Initiative Inc | $100,000 |
| Angel of Light Inc | $100,000 |
| Doorways for Women and Families | $100,000 |
| Shining Home for Communities Inc | $100,000 |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The organization's mission is to bring together creative communities to produce plays and musicals that are written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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 34 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 ACT FOR LEBANON CO FMFSB LLC ↗
- Who funds Opening Act Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS COMPANY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TRILOGY AN OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PARADISE 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Israel Venture Network ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESSER ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DUTCHESS COUNT ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Agnes Varis Trust 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.
- Trilogy an Opera Company — 34% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital — 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.
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