· Private foundation
The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $722k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,466,980 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,169,083 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,100,000 |
| CARE | $1,000,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $250,000 |
| HOMEFRONT | $200,000 |
| URBAN PROMISE INTERNATIONAL-CELDI | $170,000 |
| CLIMATE CENTRAL | $100,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $100,000 |
| NEW EGYPT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $95,000 |
| WHYY TV 12 | $85,000 |
| BARD PRISON INITIATIVE | $75,000 |
| YANA MINISTRY | $70,000 |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST | $70,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $549k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
Cornell University5× · 2020–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +46%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +39%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- PSPHILADELPHIA SERENGETI ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $70k · 98% of their budget
Learning Ally Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +70%- TFTHE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +57%
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elixir Fund. 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 42 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.
56 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. 56 of the 73 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YANA MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
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- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIXIR FUND ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY 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 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · Educational Ventures Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Tenacre 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 David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation 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.
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% 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.