· Private foundation
The Double-R Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k149 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUNY GRAD CENTER | $41,000 |
| FILM FORUM | $25,250 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BROOKLYN YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT | $21,950 |
| FORUM ON LIFE CULTURE AND SOCIETY | $20,010 |
| WILD BIRD FUND | $19,530 |
| WFUV FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $11,549 |
| ETHEL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $10,150 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $8,500 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $7,984 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MUNA SOCIAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $5,000 |
| RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY | $3,555 |
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 (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
184 repeat relationships — 135 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- FOFORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +9%
- WBWILD BIRD FUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +118%
- FUFordham University4× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NRNY RESTORATION PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $40k
- CGCUNY GRAD CENTER - CENTER FOR GLOBAL ETHICS AND POLITICSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- NYNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +287%
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 municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
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…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. 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 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.
184 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. 184 of the 261 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds DELLARTE OPERA ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds STREETWISE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TARGET MARGIN THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
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 New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Thompson Family Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Robin Hood Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
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 Double-R 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% 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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