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The Braewold Fund
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 $10k98 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| AFSC | $100,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION | $6,500 |
| FIREWOOD BANK OF THE RUBY VALLEY | $5,250 |
| BEDFORD 2030 | $5,000 |
| THE BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| FNCL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,929 |
| MASTERTON DISTRICT COUNCIL | $4,861 |
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 (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 28 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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
- TLTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +102%
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY2× · 2020–2023 · $76k · revenue +74%
- TBThe Bhutan Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- PHPOWELL HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $51k
- TOTRUSTEES OF WESTTOWN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $8k
- WCWESTCHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +112%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
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…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Harvey School and the most unlike its peers is Beaverhead Animal Shelter. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 132 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 CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Firewood Bank of the Ruby Valley ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD 2030 INC ↗
- Who funds Twin Bridges School & Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RUBY VALLEY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RUBY HABITAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
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: Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · Jandon Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Sigmund Cohn Family Foundation Inc · The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc · The Tarnok Family Foundation Inc · The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Pcsb Community Foundation · Cameron Family 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 Braewold Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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