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The Lillian Sherwood Griswold Foundation
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 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 $10k10 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $19,750 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| RESCUE WOMEN VIA GLOBAL PEARL LLC | $10,000 |
| REACH EDUCATION INC | $8,000 |
| SUBJECT MATTER | $8,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $7,500 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMAN VOTERS OF WYOMING EDUCATION FUND | $6,500 |
| WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INCLUSIVE SAILING | $5,000 |
| CHELSEA'S FUND | $5,000 |
| IPAS | $5,000 |
| APPLE VALLEY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
JUDICIAL WATCH INC3× · 2018–2020 · $48k · revenue +78%
BARNARD COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $29k · revenue +13%- CFCHELSEA'S FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- FFFAMILIES FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +49%
- PDPAUL D WHITE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $125k
- RCREDEMPTION CHURCH OF COSTA MESAone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.
The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scientific Being Research Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 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 SCIENTIFIC BEING RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds APPLE VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Daraja Education Fund ↗
- Who funds WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOR OUR COUNTRY - UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUBJECT MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHSOUND ASSOCIATION FOR CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP MURPHY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Island Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds California Inclusive Sailing ↗
- Who funds WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS 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: Wyoming Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Lillian Sherwood Griswold 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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