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Galena-Yorktown 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $905k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $652k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $1,026,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER | $331,353 |
| ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC | $150,833 |
| THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $110,000 |
| AMERICAN VOTER EDUCATION FUND | $80,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC | $75,000 |
| DC JAZZ FESTIVAL | $70,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $66,666 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOME (SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT) | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT | $40,000 |
| SISTER DISTRICT PROJECT | $35,000 |
| ACTIVE MINDS | $35,000 |
| THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $35,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE | $33,900 |
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, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 25 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
- YOYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC7× · 2017–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +44%
- NYNew York University6× · 2017–2023 · $578k · revenue +76%
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $571k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- LALINDA APPLE MONSON SCHOLARS FUNDone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TMThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue ×40
- IIInseparable Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +231%
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
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 mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Abaco Strong Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
202 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. 202 of the 288 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DC JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds BROADFUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds This is My Brave Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Youth Invest Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts
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 Galena-Yorktown 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.
- Art Works Studio School Inc — 23% of income from government
- Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Pyramid Atlantic Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 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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