· Private foundation
The Lawerence I & Blanche H Rhodes
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE LAWERENCE I & BLANCHE H RHODES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $129,707 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $100,000 |
| ALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CAPE VINCENT ARTS COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOME | $25,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ALBANY SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| CARMELITE SISTERS FOR THE AGED | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB | $6,000 |
| THOUSAND ISLANDS PERFORMING ARTS FD | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SCHUYLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 83% 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +26%- AJALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $173k · revenue +61%
- FUFordham University5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TDTHE DOANE STUART SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -55%
- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERNone grant, 2020 · $5k
- LILASALLE INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Francis College and the most unlike its peers is Cape Vincent Village Green Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds CAPE VINCENT ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds TIBBETTS POINT LIGHTHOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOANE STUART SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds South End Childrens Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE VINCENT VILLAGE GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds AVILA INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON MOHAWK INDUSTRIAL GATEWAY ↗
- Who funds CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Lawerence I & Blanche H Rhodes 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% 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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