· Private foundation
The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| FLABUSH CATS INC | $2,000 |
| THE WORLD THEATRE | $2,000 |
| SALMAGUNDI CLUB | $2,000 |
| LOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| NEW LITERARY PROJECT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERT | $1,000 |
| PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS INC | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS | $1,000 |
| CENTURION MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +2%- APAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +48%
CENTURION MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +45%
Funded once
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -17%
Millsaps Collegeone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -6%- ASAUDUBON SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $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.
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,…
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.
Our fundamental mission is to bring scholarly ideas to the world. we publish books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the human conversation. we embrace the highest standards in our…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Pen american center, inc. is an association of writers and others in the literary community working to defend free expression, advance literature, and foster international literary fellowship.
Awp provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to writers, college & university creative writing programs, and writing organizations.
Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…
To encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of american poetry by providing fellowships for poets of proven merit, by granting scholarships, awards and prizes for poetic achievement, and by other such means as the board of directors…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poets and Writers Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Kitties. 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) — 4% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 44 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.
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- Who funds THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
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- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds SALMAGUNDI CLUB ↗
- Who funds FLATBUSH CATS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LITERARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GARDEN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds POETS AND WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PENNINGTON FIRST AID SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD POETRY INC ↗
- Who funds NARRATIVE 4 INC ↗
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- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds City Kitties ↗
- Who funds HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or 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.
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Garden Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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