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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.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$37kEducation$24kAnimals$19kEnvironment$9kSocial Science$7kCrime & Legal$6kPublic Benefit$4kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$396k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WORLD THEATRE$2,000
FLABUSH CATS INC$2,000
THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE$2,000
BARD COLLEGE$2,000
NEW LITERARY PROJECT$2,000
SALMAGUNDI CLUB$2,000
LOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,000
CENTURION MINISTRIES$1,000
PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS INC$1,000
SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS$1,000
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION$1,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERT$1,000
FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC$1,000
AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY$1,000
WOODSTOCK FARM SANCTUARY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE WORLD THEATRE: $2k → 13%WRTI RADIO: $1k → 22%NEW LITERARY PROJECT: $2k → 10%MERCY FOR ANIMALS: $1k → 14%PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS INC: $1k → 7%BARD COLLEGE: $2k → 9%LOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2k → 14%WOODSTOCK FARM SANCTUARY: $2k → 16%FLABUSH CATS INC: $2k → 20%NEWS LITERACY PROJECT: $2k → 14%THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE & MUSEUM: $1k → 11%MILLSAPS COLLAGE: $3k → 23%SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $2k → 5%AUDUBON SOCIETY: $1k → 6%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERT: $1k → 11%AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY: $1k → 12%BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE: $3k → 16%THE WORLD THEATRE: $1k → 13%WRTI RADIO: $1k → 22%PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS INC: $1k → 7%BARD COLLEGE: $2k → 9%WOODSTOCK FARM SANCTUARY: $1k → 16%THE CENTER FOR FICTION: $5k → 20%NEWS LITERACY PROJECT: $1k → 14%SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $1k → 5%CENTURION MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY: $1k → 12%BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE: $3k → 16%PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS INC: $1k → 7%BARD COLLEGE: $1k → 9%WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1k → 16%THE CENTER FOR FICTION: $2k → 20%NEWS LITERACY PROJECT: $1k → 14%SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $1k → 5%CENTURION MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY: $1k → 12%PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS INC: $1k → 7%CENTURION: $1k → 17%AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY: $1k → 14%SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $1k → 5%CENTURION MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS INC: $1k → 7%AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY: $1k → 14%AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION: $2k → 22%THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%SALMAGUNDI CLUB: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
DC
MS
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 21 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
17

Total granted

$89k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsEnvironmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 ANIMALS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +2%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +48%
  • TP
    THE PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIP INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -17%
  • Millsaps College
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -6%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -8%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
2
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
4
Princeton University Press

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Pen American Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Association of Writers & Writing Programs

Awp provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to writers, college & university creative writing programs, and writing organizations.

Arts & Culture
8
Graywolf Press

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The Academy of American Poets Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poets and Writers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
16/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETY: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN HUMANIST SOCIETYBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 · OtherBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE …CENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · OtherCENTURION MINISTRIES INCNARRATIVE: $3,500 · OtherNARRATIVETHE WORLD THEATRE: $3,000 · OtherTHE WORLD THEATRELOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 · OtherSTONEY BROOK MILLSTONE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherCENTURION: $1,500 · Other+10 more: $6,600 · Other+10 moreTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $7,000 · EducationTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASS…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT…BARD COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGETHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $4,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT …Millsaps College: $3,000 · EducationMillsaps CollegeTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,000 · EducationNew York University: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL …THE PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIP INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PUSHCART PRIZE FELL…SALMAGUNDI CLUB: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSALMAGUNDI CLUBNEW LITERARY PROJECT: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNEW LITERARY PROJECTGARDEN THEATRE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePOETS AND WRITERS INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $8,000 · AnimalsSAVE A FRIEND TO …WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsWOODSTOCK FARM AN…FLATBUSH CATS INC: $2,000 · AnimalsFLATBUSH CATS INCTABBYS PLACE A CAT SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsTABBYS PLACE A CA…MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,000 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS…+1 more: $500 · AnimalsTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentNARRATIVE 4 INC: $1,000 · International
Other$39,600Education$27,000Arts & Culture$23,500Animals$17,500Environment$7,000International$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIP INC: $7,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetBLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMillsaps College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALMAGUNDI CLUB: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LITERARY PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD POETRY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTABBYS PLACE A CAT SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNINGTON FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNARRATIVE 4 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity Kitties: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Robert Wood Johns…The Ayco Charitable F…Verizon FoundationPrinceton Area Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Joyce Carol Oates Foundation Inc Fka the or Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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