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The Handshake Foundation Trust Thomas R Appleton Et Al Trustees
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of THE HANDSHAKE FOUNDATION TRUST THOMAS R APPLETON ET AL TRUSTEES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREGAMOS COMMUNITY THEATER | $4,000 |
| THE EARTH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| GRANDMA'S LOVE INC | $3,000 |
| NORTH EAST COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION | $3,000 |
| RETI CENTER FBO BROOKLYN BLUEGREEN JOBS FOR YOUTH AND ENVIRONMENT | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- RHRED HOOK ART PROJECT INC2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +22%
- BCBEAM CENTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +167%
- BWBirthday Wishes Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- NINEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -7%
- JFJUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION FBO TURTLE VILLAGEone grant, 2024 · $4k
- VAVENEZUELANS AND IMMIGRANTS AID INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -6%
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.
Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.
To provide workforce development and other programs to empower immigrant women to obtain meaningful employment or pursue higher education in nyc. to offer a safe, inclusive space where immigrant women can build community and share their…
Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
Our mission is to empower newcomer refugee, asylee and immigrant youth through soccer and mentorship; we achieve this by providing a positive space where refugee, asylee and immigrant youth can connect with their peers in a safe and…
The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Marycare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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.
- Who funds RED HOOK ART PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDMAS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VENEZUELANS AND IMMIGRANTS AID INC ↗
- Who funds TALLER SALUD INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN WATERFRONT ARTISTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI MARYCARE ↗
- Who funds Tomorrows Leaders NYC ↗
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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Handshake Foundation Trust Thomas R Appleton Et Al Trustees 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.
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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