· Private foundation
Lisa McGraw Figure Skating Fdn
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND AMATEUR SKATING FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK | $58,750 |
| FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC | $55,000 |
| US FIGURE SKATING ASSN | $40,000 |
| ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| THE NEXT ICE AGE | $30,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL SKATERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA SKATING CLUB & HUMANE SOC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN ICE THEATRE | $15,000 |
| PRINCETON SKATING CLUB | $10,000 |
| SUN VALLEY FIGURE SKATING CLUB INC | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- FSFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $390k · revenue +31%
- USUNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $322k · revenue +64%
- ITICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK7× · 2018–2024 · $281k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- ITICE THEATER OF NEW YORKone grant, 2017 · $41k
- USUNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -10%
- SFSKATER'S FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Skating instruction for adults and children
Professional skaters association
To promote the sport of amateur figure skating in St. Louis Missouri; to function as an amateur athletic association to foster national and local competition in the sport of figure skating; to encourage and give guidance for the full…
To foster,promote,encourage,advance and improve the art of and interest in ice skating; and to encourage and to cultivate a spirit of harmony and friendship among ice skaters by such means as may be proposed from time to time by our…
As a United States Figure Skating member club, we provide opportunities and resources to promote figure skating in the Portland metro area.
Providing figure skating instruction, certification, and ice rental time to members
To meet the needs of amateur figure skaters of all ages and abilities by offering opportunities for instruction, practice and advancement in figure skating. This organization is a member of U.S. Figure Skating and will function in…
Dedicated to the promotion of the sport of figure skating
Encourage instruction, practice, and advancement of figure skating.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Skating Club & Humane Socie Ty and the most unlike its peers is Princeton Day School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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 FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AMATEUR SKATING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT ICE AGE INC ↗
- Who funds ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL SKATERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON SKATING CLUB ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FIGURE SKATING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FIGURE SKATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA SKATING CLUB & HUMANE SOCIE TY ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH SPORTS FACILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Lisa McGraw Figure Skating Fdn 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.
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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