· Private foundation
The Carmel Hill 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
- $10k–50k11 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+11 grants · $7.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RSF SOCIAL FINANCE | $2,191,571 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,191,571 |
| FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $860,000 |
| BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $550,000 |
| READ ALLIANCE | $299,500 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $291,688 |
| READING PARTNERS | $287,750 |
| MADISON SQUARE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $275,000 |
| PARENTCHILD | $271,000 |
| LITERACY INC | $257,500 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| EXPANDED | $204,750 |
| NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $200,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| CITY YEAR | $155,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Carmel Hill Fund’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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 32 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.5M 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
Save The Children Federation Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $13M · revenue +11%- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +60%
- MSMadison Square Boys & Girls Club6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - THE CARMEL HILL GIFT FUNDone grant, 2018 · $5.0M
- STSAVE THE CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $2.5M
- LGLET'S GROW KIDS INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -63%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Queens Library Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hopelab Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 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) — 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 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.
73 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. 73 of the 141 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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Kelsey Trust · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens 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 Carmel Hill 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Stern Center for Language and Learning — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation 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.
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