· Private foundation
The Ettinger Foundation Inc
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 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 $10k47 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME | $30,000 |
| UPSTATE FILMS LIMITED | $30,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| FILM INDEPENDENT | $25,000 |
| NDH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME | $15,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $15,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC | $15,000 |
| PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| UPSTATE FILMS LIMITED | $10,000 |
| ORFEO ENSEMBLE INC | $10,000 |
| CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 29 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
- UFUPSTATE FILMS LTD3× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +222%
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +81%
- HVHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC3× · 2020–2024 · $87k · revenue +330%
Funded once
- AAAmerican Academy in Romeone grant, 2020 · $33k
- AFAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INCone grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue +14%
- HFHomes for Our Troops (HOME FOR)one grant, 2022 · $22k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
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.
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…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
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.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Whittier College. 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 29 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 271 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 UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds NDH Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ART XPLORATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP ↗
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 Educational Foundation of America · Clean and Prosperous America · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc
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 Ettinger Foundation Inc 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Phame Academy — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% 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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