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The Cline Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k18 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SQUASH & EDUCATION ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND | $40,925 |
| US SQUASH | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| STREETSQUASH | $20,000 |
| NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING | $15,000 |
| RHODYSQUASH | $15,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE | $15,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- TGTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +234%
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION6× · 2017–2022 · $144k · revenue +53%
- SASQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +307%
Funded once
- BBUCKNELLone grant, 2017 · $30k
- GFGHYC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
- BBATESone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The purpose of the organization is to build an enriching educational setting for under-served brooklyn youth, using athletics as a vehicle to inspire them to fulfill their academic, physical, and personal potential. bkysc is driven by an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mckim Family Charitable 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 74 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 THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds City Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Heights Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGREENS CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE SOLA FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Strong Foundation of New York · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · The Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston 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 Cline Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 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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