· Private foundation
The Cromarty 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northshore Wildlife Santcuary | $5,000 |
| Tabor Academy | $3,000 |
| Loaves and Fishes | $3,000 |
| Nobody's Cats Foundation | $3,000 |
| Life Enrichment Center at Oyster Ba | $1,500 |
| Sweet Briar College Office of Alumn | $1,500 |
| Oakcliff Sailing Center | $1,500 |
| Carolina Breast Friends | $1,500 |
| Grenville Baker Boys Girls Club | $1,000 |
| Peace House | $1,000 |
| Christian Center of Utah | $1,000 |
| Proctor Academy Development Office | $1,000 |
| Island Dolphin Care | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| Education Through Music | $750 |
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 (FY21–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LALOAVES AND FISHES3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +45%
- TATABOR ACADEMY4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +54%
- CBCarolina Breast Friends Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- GBGreenville Baker Boys Girls Clubone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CFCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIESone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue 0%
- OOakcliffone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
(see schedule o)
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
The town school is committed to elementary coeducation, serving students in nursery through eighth grade. as we embrace high academic and ethical standards for each student, we are guided by our school motto, let there be joy in learning.…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York and the most unlike its peers is Carolina Breast Friends 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 45 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.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Carolina Breast Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NOBODY'S CATS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds GRENVILLE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds EARLYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLEDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND CLUB ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION ↗
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 Bahnik Foundation Inc · Pierre and Paula Gonthier Family Foundation · Frederic R Coudert Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 Cromarty 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.
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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