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The Amy and Steve Unfried Foundation

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.

$520k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$1.1MEducation$492kArts & Culture$67kHealth$32kCivil Rights$32kRecreation & Sports$20kReligion$10k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Earthjustice$210,000
Westminster School$100,000
Milton Academy$90,000
Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance$22,000
Central Park Conservancy$20,000
Wyoming Immigration Advocacy Project$20,000
Fistula Foundation$20,000
Americans United for the Separation of Church & State$10,000
Mental Health & Recovery Services$10,000
Off Square Theater$10,000
Circle of Hope Healthcare$2,000
WyoUnited Education Project$2,000
Chelsea's Fund$2,000
Wyoming Public Media$2,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Milton Academy: $105k → 7%Fistula Foundation: $20k → 8%Earthjustice: $210k → 10%Central Park Conservancy: $20k → 17%Americans United for the Separation of Church & State: $10k → 14%Westminster School: $105k → 11%Off Square Theatre: $35k → 5%Chelsea's Fund: $2k → 11%Milton Academy: $90k → 7%Earthjustice: $175k → 10%Westminster School: $100k → 11%Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance: $35k → 5%Circle of Hope Healthcare: $2k → 11%Milton Academy: $5k → 7%Earthjustice: $170k → 10%Westminster School: $5k → 11%Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance: $22k → 5%Milton Academy: $5k → 7%Earthjustice: $150k → 10%Westminster School: $5k → 11%Wyoming Immigration Advocacy Project: $20k → 5%Milton Academy: $5k → 7%Earthjustice: $150k → 10%Westminster School: $5k → 11%Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance: $15k → 5%Wellesley College: $5k → 7%Earthjustice: $150k → 10%Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance: $15k → 5%Wellesley College: $5k → 7%Mental Health & Recovery Services: $10k → 5%Wellesley College: $5k → 7%Off Square Theatre: $10k → 5%Wellesley College: $5k → 7%Off Square Theater: $10k → 5%Off Square Theatre: $10k → 5%St John's Episcopal Church: $10k → 5%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 8 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$1.6M
$10k

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +1%
  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $87k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
3
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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4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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6
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
7
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
8
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
12
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellesley College; the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EARTHJUSTICE: $1,005,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $87,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCETRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $220,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL…MILTON ACADEMY: $210,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYThe Trustees of Princeton University: $20,000 · EducationWellesley College: $20,000 · EducationWyoming Immigration Advocacy Project: $20,000 · OtherYale Law School: $20,000 · OtherAmericans United for the Separation of Church & State: $10,000 · OtherOff Square Theater: $10,000 · OtherMental Health & Recovery Services: $10,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $6,000 · OtherOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY: $55,000 · Arts & CultureThe Fistula Foundation: $20,000 · HealthCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCHELSEA'S FUND: $2,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$1,092,000Education$470,000Other$86,000Arts & Culture$55,000Health$20,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Civil Rights$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $1,005,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $87,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY: $55,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $20,000 over 4y, 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 EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds OFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds CHELSEA'S FUND ↗

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.

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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 The Amy and Steve Unfried Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Amy and Steve Unfried Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 19 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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