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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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$15kPhilanthropy$5kHousing & Shelter$3kHealth$2kEnvironment$1kReligion$1kCommunity Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$500,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TABOR ACADEMY: $1k → 8%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $25k → 8%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $25k → 14%ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT: $1k → 7%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $250 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI- FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $500k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 22%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $1k → 6%NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL: $3k → 8%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON: $10k → 14%UNION CHAPEL (FISHERS ISLAND): $1k → 7%NYYC FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI- FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $200k → 11%EMERSON (HOSPITAL) HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON: $5k → 14%HL FERGUSON MUSEUM: $200 → 7%NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $200k → 11%THOREAU FARM TRUST: $50 → 8%FISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $100 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $200k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE WORKS: $100 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+79%

Still filing today

50%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +11%
  • NB
    NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2020 · $15k

Funded once

  • NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • NF
    NYYC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
2
Island Pacific Academy Inc

Island pacific academy (ipa) is a k-12 independent, coed, college preparatory school

Education
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Peace Islands Institute New York Inc
Religion
9
Harbor Day School

Education

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Nantucket Historical Association

The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Harbor School

Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northfield Mount Hermon School; the most unlike its peers is Thoreau Farm Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $1,185,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD+3 more: $53,500 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI- FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $15,000 · OtherNYYC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 · Other+2 more: $1,500 · OtherASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $1,200 · EnvironmentFISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $100 · EnvironmentISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC: $1,000 · HealthNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $500 · Community ImprovementHenry L Ferguson Museum: $200 · Arts & CultureTHE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC: $100 · Arts & CultureThoreau Farm Trust Inc: $50 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250 · International
Education$1,238,500Other$39,000Environment$1,300Health$1,000Community Improvement$500Arts & Culture$350International$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $1,185,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenry L Ferguson Museum: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThoreau Farm Trust Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William C and Cin…The Duke of Omnium Fu…The Frederic C Hamilt…The Fairfield Foundat…Valley Charitable Tru…The Sooner FoundationThe Willinphila Found…Elizabeth Ring Mather…The McCance FoundationThe Emily Hall Tremai…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
The William C and Cindy L Scott FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation · The Duke of Omnium Fund · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Fairfield Foundation · Valley Charitable Trust · The Sooner Foundation · The Willinphila Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund · The McCance Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Grant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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