· Private foundation
The Howard Bayne Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k68 grants · $298k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $511k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $391k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $84,000 |
| THE COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE | $70,000 |
| GODS LOVE WE DELIVER INC | $57,575 |
| NEW JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY | $54,800 |
| THE JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| ALI AKBAR COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $40,000 |
| WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY | $33,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $29,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $28,000 |
| EAGLE HILL SCHOOL GREENWICH | $26,000 |
| LOTUS FINE ARTS | $21,700 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $20,000 |
| NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $16,800 |
| OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY - NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $16,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- WMWORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $387k · revenue +22%
New Jersey Audubon Society6× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +4%- CRCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $249k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE FBO JAZZ WORKSHOPone grant, 2020 · $18k
- TWTHE WORKING THEATERone grant, 2021 · $6k
- THTHE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FBO IN MEMORY OF THE LATE DR PHILLIP Wone grant, 2020 · $4k
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary. 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 54 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 145 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 WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ALI AKBAR COLLEGE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Weatherlow Foundation · Knopf Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Fidelity 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 Howard Bayne Fund 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.
- Vermont Covertswoodlands for Wildlife Inc — 18% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Dogs and Cats Forever — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society 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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