· Private foundation
The Boathouse Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH CO PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| ADAM J LEWIS PRESCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING | $5,000 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST | $3,263 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +2312% since the first grant, against +80% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING2× · 2017–2019 · $15k
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +31%
- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue ×24
Funded once
- TGTHE GRACE PLACE INCone grant, 2017 · $7k
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +4%- CMCENTER MANAGEMENT INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +17%
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.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethel Walker School Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING ↗
- Who funds Animal Adoption Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROMLEY OUTING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HANDWEAVING MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS EMERGENCY RESCUE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY 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: Ibm International Foundation · The Phinney Charitable Foundation Inc · Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · Cleveland H Dodge Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Andrew & Jeanine McNally Charitable Foundation · Twin Trees Foundationinc · Edward John Noble Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Boathouse 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.
- Fairfield Theatre Company 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.