· Private foundation
The Cushman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
The 24 grants below total $548,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $592,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,510 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k17 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FARA | $400,000 |
| All Flourish Inc. | $40,000 |
| Brennan Center for Justice | $15,000 |
| College of the Holy Cross | $10,000 |
| St. Pius X | $10,000 |
| Himilayan Cataract Project | $10,000 |
| Partners in Health | $10,000 |
| Fadica | $8,750 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund | $5,000 |
| Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment | $5,000 |
| Arise Foundation America Inc. | $5,000 |
| Coalition for the Homeless, | $5,000 |
| Mission Santa Maria | $5,000 |
| Check My Ads Institute | $5,000 |
| Catholic Charities -Diocese of Brooklyn | $3,000 |
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 +32% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $71k · revenue +64%- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +4%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC2× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $100k
- CTCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +10%
- AASHOKAone grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue -29%
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 committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coalition for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 37 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 WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Check My Ads Institute ↗
- Who funds GRANTHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds ARISE FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MISSION SANTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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.
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