· Private foundation
The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018)
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $2,500,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $500,500 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $500,000 |
| SCENIC HUDSON INC | $50,000 |
| EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC | $6,000 |
| SUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC | $3,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,500 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
| MARQUAND PARK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PRINCETON FUTURE | $2,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k 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
EARTHJUSTICE2× · 2023–2024 · $750k · revenue +36%- SNSUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +71%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OSOpen Space Institute (7470)one grant, 2020 · $100k
- NRNatural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (7026)one grant, 2020 · $100k
- KCKINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +20%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Island press creates, publishes and promotes powerful ideas and solutions that help transform local, national, and global environmental practices and policies in order to better ecological and human well-being.
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…
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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 National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 49 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) — 3% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 67 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 EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds SUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MARQUAND PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Princeton Future Inc ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
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.
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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 Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) 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.
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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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