· Private foundation
The May Family 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 $10k78 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION | $14,838 |
| VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION | $14,837 |
| EAGLE COUNTY 4-H CLUB | $13,132 |
| THOMAS COLE HOUSE | $13,000 |
| COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION (COLORADOGIVEORG) | $10,000 |
| COLORADOGIVESORG | $7,500 |
| COLORADOGIVESORG | $6,760 |
| THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORICAL SITE | $6,000 |
| THOMAS COLE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORICAL SITE | $5,000 |
| EAGLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SEATTLE TIMES FUND FOR THE NEEDY | $3,500 |
| VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA | $3,000 |
| STRONG TOWNS | $2,641 |
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 (FY17–24, $266k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +47% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 16 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- VVVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $258k · revenue +35%
- ECEagle County Charter Academy5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +37%
- TSTHE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND7× · 2018–2024 · $24k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CTCrawlin To A Cureone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -40%
- VVVAIL VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WCWickenburg Community Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +190%
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 Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in 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."
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
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…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Epacenter's mission is to increase opportunities for youth to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inner Asian Conservation 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 35 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 3% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 188 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 VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eagle County Charter Academy ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Glider ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Concord Review Inc ↗
- Who funds ICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DUDE RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds COWBOYS FOREVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crawlin To A Cure ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STRONG TOWNS ↗
- Who funds King County Sexual Assault Resource Center ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds AREI INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
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: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Peckham Family Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Hrbt Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · The Tow Foundation Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS 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 May Family 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.
- Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 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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