· Private foundation
The Bok Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $960k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $675,000 |
| CARE | $500,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY | $450,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY GIFT | $400,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $334,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $175,000 |
| PROJECT SAGE | $100,000 |
| SCENIC HUDSON | $100,000 |
| ASPCA | $100,000 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE | $100,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $100,000 |
| PUBLIC THEATER | $75,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY | $60,000 |
| ANIMAL DEFENSE FUND | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 17% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of The Bok Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 7% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 19 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +76%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +59%
- SCSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $710k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- RNROW NEW YORK INCone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -42%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -23%
- TATHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +1%
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.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
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.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of 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.
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 53 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.
35 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. 35 of the 44 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL NOISE INC ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds Bedlam Inc ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND CIVIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Music Mountain Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE 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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bok Family 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.
- Salisbury Housing Committee Inc — 70% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Joyful Noise Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 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.