· Private foundation
The Ellen M Violett and Mary Pr Thomas Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE ELLEN M VIOLETT AND MARY PR THOMAS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $865,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $950,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S GLOBAL HEALTH FUND | $100,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN PSYCHIATRISTS | $60,000 |
| LITERACY PARTNERS INC | $50,000 |
| EVERY TOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $40,000 |
| THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOANALYSIS | $35,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI VISITING DOCTORS PROGRAM | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THIRTEEN WNET NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| COPD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NELTJE CTR. UNIV. OF WYOMING | $25,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| 92ND STREET Y | $20,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $15,000 |
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 +64% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 31 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, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775k 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
- LPLiteracy Partners Inc4× · 2019–2023 · $103k · revenue +235%
- CGCHILDRENS GLOBAL HEALTH FUND INC4× · 2019–2023 · $87k · revenue ×13
PBS FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue +98%
Funded once
BARNARD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +50%- NYNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +28%
- NSNEW SUFFOLK WATERFRONT FUND INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +19%
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.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
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
Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
The economic club of new york is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization dedicated to the promotion of the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. for more than a century, the club has served as the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 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 44 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.
31 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. 31 of the 75 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 Literacy Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS GLOBAL HEALTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOANALYSIS ↗
- Who funds Association of Women Psychiatrists ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK WOMEN FOR WOMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
- Who funds NEW SUFFOLK WATERFRONT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
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