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The Albany Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $481k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH | $185,000 |
| OLD JAIL ART CENTER | $165,563 |
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION | $10,914 |
| CHILD STUDY CENTER | $5,457 |
| NORTH TEXAS HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,457 |
| AUSTIN 20 | $5,457 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,457 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $5,457 |
| MAKE A WISH | $5,457 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,457 |
| WE RISE ABOVE THE STREETS | $5,457 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PTR | $5,457 |
| ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,457 |
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 (FY17–24, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- ABAbilene Boys Ranch Inc3× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +3%
- OJOLD JAIL ART CENTER3× · 2017–2024 · $176k · revenue +204%
BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +40%
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $166k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-CENTER FOR YOUTH MENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…
The children's advocacy center of greater west texas, inc.'s mission is to champion the prevention of child abuse and to serve as an ally of abused children with a dedication to securing a safe and nurturing home for each child.
Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Youth and family alliance (dba lifeworks) is a fearless advocate for youth and young adults pursuing a life they love and a stable future for themselves and their families. we strive to break cycles of instability by providing support and…
To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.
The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas and the most unlike its peers is Blue Bird LifeWays. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 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 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD JAIL ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds NATIVE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Child Study Center ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 Albany Foundation 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.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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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