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The Barbara Alden Taylor Foundationinc at a glance

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The Barbara Alden Taylor Foundationinc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$33kEducation$20kArts & Culture$3kInternational$3kReligion$2kCommunity Improvement$2kHuman Services$500Civil Rights$450
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Smith College of New York$6,000
Madison Square Boys Girls Club$2,500
SMITH COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY$1,000
WOMENS FORUM OF NEW YORK INC$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%ACCESSCIRCLES LLC: $500 → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61k · 7 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$61k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+41%

Still filing today

43%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MS
    Madison Square Boys Girls Club
    8× · 2017–2025 · $33k
  • SC
    Smith College of New York
    6× · 2019–2025 · $19k
  • TL
    THE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • KC
    KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $600 · revenue +251%
  • AI
    ACCESSCIRCLES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -80%
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCAT
    one grant, 2018 · $285
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
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
2
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
3
The Economic Club of New York

The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…

Social Science
4
The Conversationalist
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5
Women's Forum Inc

Forum membership provides extraordinary women with the opportunity to network with a diverse array of peers, to help one another succeed and to share unique experiences. we believe the potential for cross-collaboration among our diverse…

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6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Women's City Club of New York Inc

Women's City Club of New York d/b/a Women Creating Change (WCC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization advancing gender equity through civic engagement, leadership development, and policy advocacy. Founded in 1915 as a pioneering civic…

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8
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
9
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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10
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
11
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Forum of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Madison Square Boys Girls Club: $32,945 · OtherMadison Square Boys Girls ClubSmith College of New York: $18,600 · OtherSmith College of New YorkFIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $1,095 · OtherTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $2,800 · Arts & CultureTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $125 · Arts & CultureWOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementSMITH COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,000 · EducationKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $600 · EducationMACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150 · EducationACCESSCIRCLES INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$56,640Arts & Culture$2,925Community Improvement$2,000Education$1,750Human Services$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMITH COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSCIRCLES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $125 over 1y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Barbara Alden Taylor Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara Alden Taylor Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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 · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Barbara Alden Taylor Foundationinc?

    Find your warmest path to The Barbara Alden Taylor Foundationinc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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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