· Private foundation
The Eshe Fund
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE ESHE FUND | $220,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $30,000 |
| BEDFORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LEHMAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $3,500 |
| LONG WALK SOCIETY OF TRINITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $2,000 |
| COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $650 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $555 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of your 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BRBEDFORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $151k · revenue +2%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +58%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR CITY OF NY OPEN HEARTS INITATIVEone grant, 2023 · $1k
- CPCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue +12%
- JAJOURNALISM AND WOMEN SYMPOSIUMone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -54%
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 Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…
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 Bedford Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 BEDFORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds HERBERT H LEHMAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM AND WOMEN SYMPOSIUM ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 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 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Eshe Fund 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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