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The Howard & Sandra Taylor Foundation

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$12kEducation$7kMembership Benefit$5kArts & Culture$4kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$1kHousing & Shelter$571Recreation & Sports$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,140
Median grant
2
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION$3,784
ACTOR'S FUND$1,200
WHEELING FORWARD$1,140
TRIBECCA PS 150 AND 234$825
TOLUCA LAKE ELEMENTARY$500
FRIENDS OF DUANE PARK$250
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WHEELING FORWARD: $1k → 20%WHEELING FORWARD: $750 → 20%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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$32k · 8 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$32k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+38%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesMembership BenefitEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +51%
  • TL
    TOLUCA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +15%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    2× · 2020–2022 · $550 · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • PN
    PAC NYC (Performing Arts Center)
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Artgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $824 · revenue +38%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2024 · $600 · revenue +18%

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
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
4
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
5
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
7
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
8
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
9
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
10
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
11
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc

Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…

Arts & Culture
12
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Modern Art and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $11,534 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCTRIBECCA PS 150 AND 234 — $5,307 · OtherTRIBECCA PS 150 AND 234CITIMEALS — $4,700 · OtherCITIMEALSMCHAEL FOX FOUNDATION — $1,425 · OtherMCHAEL FOX FOUNDATIONPAC NYC (Performing Arts Center) — $1,000 · OtherTOLUCA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA — $1,000 · Other+4 more — $1,160 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $5,200 · Membership BenefitTHE ACTORS' FUND…WHEELING FORWARD INC — $1,890 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $571 · Human ServicesMuseum of Modern Art — $824 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $600 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $550 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF DUANE PARK INC — $250 · EnvironmentUniversity of Miami — $250 · Education
Other$26,126Membership Benefit$5,200Human Services$2,461Arts & Culture$1,974Environment$250Education$250

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 budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $11,534 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELING FORWARD INC — $1,890 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTOLUCA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $824 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $571 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUANE PARK INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $250 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Howard & Sandra Taylor 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Howard & Sandra Taylor Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Howard & Sandra Taylor Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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