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The Grey Street Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Grey Street Foundation Inc

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.

$12
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$194kAnimals$185kYouth Development$40kCommunity Improvement$37kPhilanthropy$19kHuman Services$15kReligion$13kHealth$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAEL DEFENSE AND SECURITY FORUM$12
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $10k → 9%HOPES DOOR INC: $3k → 7%SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $250 → 8%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $3k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $250 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$488k · 11 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$488k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+47%

Still filing today

55%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $194k · revenue +116%
  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    4× · 2017–2020 · $185k · revenue +43%
  • NL
    NEIGHBORS LINK CORP
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOLF CONVERSATION CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TL
    The Livestrong Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -337%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
2
New York Immigration Coalition Inc

To unite immigrants, members and allies so all new yorkers can thrive.

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3
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
4
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
5
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
6
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
7
El-Hibri Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
9
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
10
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
11
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
12
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro Hispano Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Bicycle Relief Nfp. 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

16 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. 16 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $194,205 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEDefenders of Wildlife: $184,520 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $30,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSWOLF CONVERSATION CENTER: $25,000 · OtherWOLF CONVERSATION CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $18,586 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE SHOLOM INC: $12,908 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM INCPAN MASS CHALLENGE TRUST: $11,000 · OtherPAN MASS CHALLENGE TRUSTBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERLEADVILLE TRAIL 100 LEGACY FOUNDATION: $9,400 · OtherLEADVILLE TRAIL 100 LEGACY…EL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $7,500 · OtherEL CENTRO HISPANO INC+5 more: $3,612 · OtherNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $12,500 · Human ServicesHOPES DOOR INC: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $500 · Human ServicesThe Livestrong Foundation: $13,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 · EducationTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $360 · EducationCenter for a New American Security Inc: $7,500 · International
Civil Rights$194,205Animals$184,520Other$128,006Human Services$15,500Philanthropy$13,000Education$11,360International$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $194,205 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $184,520 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPES DOOR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Grey Street Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grey Street Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 25 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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