How much does The Midvale Foundation give?

The Midvale Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $262,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Midvale Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (65%), Arts & Culture (16%), International (5%).

Who are The Midvale Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cornell University ($996k), Narragansett Historical Society ($127k), Adam J Lewis Academy Inc ($109k).

Does The Midvale Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Midvale Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Midvale Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Citizens Charitable Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.

Where is The Midvale Foundation based?

The Midvale Foundation is based in DE.

The Midvale Foundation

The Midvale Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$263k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$91k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$313kInternational$98kHealth$78kEnvironment$49kFood & Nutrition$38kAnimals$23kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k40 grants · $109k
$10k–50k5 grants · $64k
$50k–250k1 grant · $91k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION	$7,500
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$7,500
ITHACA COLLEGE	$7,000
ST PETERS BY THE SEA CHURCH	$5,000
GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC	$5,000
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC	$5,000
SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE	$5,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$5,000
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 53 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+17%

Still filing today

94%

93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthCivil RightsInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 University
8× · 2018–2025 · $996k · revenue +49%
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ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue ×24
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +91%

Funded once

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -40%
MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +30%
JS
JUILLIARD SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -5%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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University of New Haven

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…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals

New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Naples Zoo Inc

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…

Animals

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County; 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.

04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

83/83

Grantees still filing

68/83

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,285,000Arts & Culture$303,500Health$146,700Other$181,000Environment$38,650Human Services$29,000Food & Nutrition$24,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI23.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Midvale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Midvale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home