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The Atlantic 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $504k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEWARD JOHNSON ATELIER INC | $1,400,000 |
| HARMONY INSTITUTE | $1,260,000 |
| EYEBEAM ATELIER | $505,000 |
| AMIGOS DE COSTA RICA | $201,000 |
| GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE | $157,500 |
| SCREENWRITERS COLONY | $93,400 |
| REPRESENT US EDUCATION FUND | $52,500 |
| ALMANACK ARTS COLONY | $35,000 |
| THE SAKYONG POTRANG | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $10,000 |
| SHINZEN YOUNG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $23M · revenue +2% · 51% of their budget- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $697k · revenue +163%
- NDNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +37%
Funded once
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -66%- CLCENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE INVESTIGACIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CLCENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE INVESTIGACION PERIODISTICAone grant, 2022 · $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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
To set the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political and cultural contexts.
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is D&R Greenway Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Seward Johnson Atelier 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEWARD JOHNSON ATELIER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS ↗
- Who funds ALMANACK ARTS COLONY INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF NEW JERSEY GRANTMAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds MERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY BREW INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK HARM REDUCTION EDUCATORS INC ↗
- Who funds D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds STOUTSBURG SOURLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION 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: Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Atlantic 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% 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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