· Private foundation
The Humanist Trust
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| LICR FUND INC | $5,500 |
| MILTON ACADEMY | $5,500 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $1,000 |
| POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER | $1,000 |
| STERNE SCHOOL | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your 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 +19% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TNTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +76%
MILTON ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +19%- SBST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- ESEXODUS SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -22%
- HAHARLEM ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $625 · revenue -12%
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.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
Tower hill school prepares students from diverse backgrounds for full and creative engagement with a dynamic world. each student is provided with an educational experience that emphasizes the development of an inquisitive, discerning and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Believing in the limitless potential of girls, hockaday school develops resilient, confident women who are educated and inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nightingale-Bamford School and the most unlike its peers is Licr Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 LICR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds STERNE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Humanist Trust 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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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