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The Great Foundation

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.

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$700kHealth$75kEducation$73kInternational$60kFood & Nutrition$54kArts & Culture$51kHuman Services$48kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TIGER FOUNDATION$50,000
PEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT$12,500
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$5,000
CHILDREN'S AID$4,000
NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL BOSTON$2,500
THRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT$2,500
SACRED HEART ACADEMY$2,200
DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT$1,500
BIRTHDAY BUDS$1,126
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION$1,100
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC$1,080
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST$573
ONE SIMPLE WISH$531
TAMERLAINE FARM SANCTUARY$511
NEW HARVEST INC$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PURSUIT FOUNDATION: $250 → 16%BIRTHDAY BUDS: $1k → 12%B A C A INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 → 5%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $531 → 11%OFF THE STREETS: $200 → 9%YES SOLUTIONS INC: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $4k → 17%YES SOLUTIONS INC: $2k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
AR
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$850k · 18 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
37

Total granted

$850k
$316k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+20%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • RU
    REUT USA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +92%
  • PT
    PEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +316%
  • TF
    THRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +294%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER CBOL
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • HF
    HOODIES FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tiger Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr13%73%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,702

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
32/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIGER FOUNDATION — $700,000 · OtherTIGER FOUNDATION+52 more — $200,890 · Other+52 moreREUT USA — $60,000 · Arts & CultureREUT USAPEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC — $40,500 · Arts & CulturePEOPLE'S …NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationLearning Home Volunteers — $15,000 · EducationBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $5,656 · Education+5 more — $1,500 · EducationHOODIES FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyHEDGE FUNDS CARE INC — $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyQSAC INC — $20,000 · HealthBAILEY HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Health+5 more — $1,670 · HealthRETHINK FOOD NYC INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $400 · Food & NutritionWOMEN IN NEED INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesYES Solutions Inc — $7,007 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $4,000 · Human ServicesBirthday Buds Inc — $1,126 · Human Services+4 more — $1,481 · Human Services
Other$900,890Arts & Culture$100,500Education$62,156Philanthropy$35,100Health$31,670Food & Nutrition$30,400Human Services$28,614

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIGER FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetREUT USA — $60,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC — $40,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $20,200 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQSAC INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEDGE FUNDS CARE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLearning Home Volunteers — $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC — $13,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAILEY HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYES Solutions Inc — $7,007 over 1y, 13% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $5,656 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOATS OF ANARCHY INC — $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HARVEST INC — $1,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBirthday Buds Inc — $1,126 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLILY'S PLACE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMSTERDOG — $700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST — $573 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $531 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETPAW INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetULSTER COUNTY SPCA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACA International Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATERIAL INNOVATION INSTITUTE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURSUIT FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNWALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOFF THE STREETS INC — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMERLAINE FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Webster Bank Charitab…The Lazard Charitable…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Ibm International Fou…Chubb Charitable Foun…Verizon FoundationNational Philanthropi…
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY15.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Great Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines