· Private foundation
The George M Van Cleave Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
- $250k+8 grants · $27M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Van Cleave Family DAF: Diane Fund | $8,277,928 |
| Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Van Cleave Family DAF: Karen Fund | $8,277,928 |
| Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Van Cleave Family DAF: Paul Fund | $8,277,928 |
| White Plains Hospital | $750,000 |
| Shriners Children's Hospital | $500,000 |
| St.Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $500,000 |
| ASPCA | $300,000 |
| USO | $250,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $100,000 |
| Village Lutheran Church | $100,000 |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | $100,000 |
| New York Medical College | $75,000 |
| Heart Care | $50,000 |
| Sojourner | $25,000 |
| Project Recover Inc | $25,000 |
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 +34% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M 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
- WPWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center2× · 2022–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2023 · $133k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SHSHINNER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDERNone grant, 2021 · $300k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +78%- SHSHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDERNone grant, 2020 · $200k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 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.
22 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. 22 of the 45 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.
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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.
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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.
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