· Private foundation
The Liberal Do-Gooder Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTCHESTER RESETTLEMENT COALITION | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $5,000 |
| RIVER ARTS | $3,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $1,800 |
| CAMP KINDERLAND | $1,250 |
| THE ACTING COMPANY | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| NEW 42 | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA | $500 |
| MALALA FUND | $500 |
| CATA - COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- HSHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT4× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +14%
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +29%
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYone grant, 2021 · $23k
- WRWESTCHESTER RESETTLEMENT CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TATHE ACTORS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +31%
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.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Soho repertory provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. we elevate artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
The irish repertory theatre (the "theatre") mission is to bring works by irish and irish american masters and contemporary playwrights to american audiences, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary irish american experience…
The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…
To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Milwaukee Community Orchestra 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 39 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 HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CAMP KINDERLAND INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Resettlement Coalition ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE PLAYWRIGHTS LAB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRIPLEX CINEMA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Liberal Do-Gooder Foundation 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.
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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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