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The Handley 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY TEMPLE | $5,000 |
| THE HUDSON REVIEW | $3,000 |
| NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE | $2,500 |
| GINA BAUCHAUER INTERNATIONAL PIANO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA | $2,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON ISLAND FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WASHINGTON ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| TRUEBLOOD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $1,500 |
| LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER | $1,250 |
| THE HUDSON REVIEW | $1,000 |
| ONE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| WASHINGTON ISLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| ACLU | $1,000 |
| ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 17 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +119%- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +39%
- GBGINA BACHAUER INTERNATIONAL PIANO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- CTCALVARY TEMPLE MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WLWESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +156%
- FLFRANCIS LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTERone grant, 2020 · $1k
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 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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Literary Classics of the Us Inc D/B/a Library of America and the most unlike its peers is Classicopia. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
118 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. 118 of the 234 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 NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds GINA BACHAUER INTERNATIONAL PIANO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL IN ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPAULDING ACADEMY & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds THE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ISLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Copa Safety & Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Barrette Family Fund · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · Richard T Button Foundation · Natalie W & Leo E Wolf Foundation
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 Handley 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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