· Private foundation
The Bg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST THOMAS CHURCH | $5,500 |
| EPISCOPAL CHARITIES | $4,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE | $2,500 |
| PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NYS | $2,500 |
| THE FUND FOR PARK AVENUE | $2,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE | $2,000 |
| LAWYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMNYC BAR FUND | $1,000 |
| CHURCH OF TRANSFIGURATION | $1,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB | $600 |
| UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT | $500 |
| PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL | $500 |
| JUILLIARD | $500 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $300 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI | $250 |
| KULA FOR KARMA | $250 |
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 (FY22–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- PTPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +507%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +3%- FFFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TPTHE PILGRIMS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +1%
- 1A1848 ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k
- SNST NICHOLAS SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +29%
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 new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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…
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 conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is French Heritage Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colony Foundation. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 63 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 THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds PATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PILGRIMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ST NICHOLAS SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
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 William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP · The Elizabeth and Stanley D Scott Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Royce Family Fund Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Bg Charitable 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Calvin Hill Day Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital — 3% 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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