· Private foundation
The Midvale 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $90,500 |
| NARRAGANSETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,250 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC | $12,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION | $11,500 |
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC | $10,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ITHACA COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NARRAGANSETT LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ST PETERS BY THE SEA CHURCH | $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 (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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 +17% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
Cornell University8× · 2018–2025 · $996k · revenue +49%- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue ×24
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +91%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -40%- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -5%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +30%
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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 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…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
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,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 47 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 90 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds NARRAGANSETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Narragansett Library ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNQUOWA SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds LANAI CAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION 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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Joseph and Rosalyn Sinclair Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Mary a Crocker Trust · Ibm International Foundation · Smith Richardson Foundation 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 Midvale 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc — 12% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.