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The Children's Trust
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 $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $514k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MINISTRY OF THE KORDADA INC | $250,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $222,500 |
| THE 10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC | $150,000 |
| DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY | $132,500 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $120,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF MSK | $100,000 |
| ESALEN INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| WETA INC | $50,000 |
| LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $50,000 |
| MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $50,000 |
| CREATIVE TIME | $46,500 |
| ST THOMAS MORE PLAY GROUP | $42,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER | $40,000 |
| NEW YORK LIVE ARTS | $30,000 |
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, $761k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
58 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- EIESALEN INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +144%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $938k · revenue +12%- ADADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $685k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- GCGOLDEN CHILDREN INCone grant, 2018 · $136k · revenue -85%
- AAALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA MEDIA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -94% · 67% of their budget
- SCSIERRA CLUBone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -41%
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Harpswell 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 34 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 109 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 ESALEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF THE KORDADA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITS OF WASTE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds THE HEROES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACT TO FILM INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Art into Acres ↗
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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Anna Carolina and Soo Kim Foundation · Hathaway Family Foundation · Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Children's Trust 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% 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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